Irish literature's ubiquitous relationship to the environment offers a vast reservoir of meditations on humanity's relationship with non-human natures. This can often prove daunting to both established scholars and novice readers. For all those who are interested in the intersectional concerns that arise from Irish literature's evocations of the environment, Tim Wenzell's timely anthology will prove to be especially invaluable. The book brings into sharp focus the unique ways in which Irish history merges with national and geopolitical ecologies, and how geographical questions are always conflated with geological ones. -- Dr. Malcolm Sen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Time has shaped a distinctive history of Irish nature literature in a deeply gathered, insightful anthology....Itself a generous treasury of Irish nature poetry and prose, the book is ordered by historical responses to religion, romanticism, colonisation, catastrophe, nationalism and material success. * Irish Times *
Wenzell's annotated selection is timely, looking as it does at a genre that doesn't seem to have bitten in Ireland quite as hard as it has in other publishing territories, a symptom perhaps of a more complicated - and at times harrowing - relationship with the natural world. * Sunday Independent *
This anthology emphasizes the importance of the natural world of Ireland and the breadth of writing that has embraced it during many centuries. * Gale Literature Book Review Index *
Readers familiar with Irish literature and ecocriticism will find this volume filled with familiar faces and materials, as well as a few more obscure and exciting ones. This anthology offers scholars a series of substantial pieces from which to expand and further consider Irish nature writing and Irish approaches to the natural world. * Irish Studies Review *
The Best of the University Presses: 100 Books to Escape the News As Recommended by the UP Community
https://lithub.com/the-best-of-the-university-presses-a-reading-list/ * LitHub *
Woven Shades of Green...shows the great variety and depth of editor Tim Wenzell's knowledge and insight on the topic across history. He possesses a keen sense for choosing not only the key authors and texts, but also often underappreciated writers or lesser known works by famous ones. * James Joyce Literary Supplement *
A generous and inclusive anthology, focusing mainly on poetry but open also to significant pieces of prose....The engagement by these writers shows a valuable addition to the literature of the natural world. * New Hibernia Review *
Irish literature's ubiquitous relationship to the environment offers a vast reservoir of meditations on humanity's relationship with non-human natures. This can often prove daunting to both established scholars and novice readers. For all those who are interested in the intersectional concerns that arise from Irish literature's evocations of the environment, Tim Wenzell's timely anthology will prove to be especially invaluable. The book brings into sharp focus the unique ways in which Irish history merges with national and geopolitical ecologies, and how geographical questions are always conflated with geological ones. -- Dr. Malcolm Sen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Time has shaped a distinctive history of Irish nature literature in a deeply gathered, insightful anthology....Itself a generous treasury of Irish nature poetry and prose, the book is ordered by historical responses to religion, romanticism, colonisation, catastrophe, nationalism and material success. * Irish Times *
Wenzell's annotated selection is timely, looking as it does at a genre that doesn't seem to have bitten in Ireland quite as hard as it has in other publishing territories, a symptom perhaps of a more complicated - and at times harrowing - relationship with the natural world. * Sunday Independent *
This anthology emphasizes the importance of the natural world of Ireland and the breadth of writing that has embraced it during many centuries. * Gale Literature Book Review Index *
Readers familiar with Irish literature and ecocriticism will find this volume filled with familiar faces and materials, as well as a few more obscure and exciting ones. This anthology offers scholars a series of substantial pieces from which to expand and further consider Irish nature writing and Irish approaches to the natural world. * Irish Studies Review *
The Best of the University Presses: 100 Books to Escape the News As Recommended by the UP Community
https://lithub.com/the-best-of-the-university-presses-a-reading-list/ * LitHub *
Woven Shades of Green...shows the great variety and depth of editor Tim Wenzell's knowledge and insight on the topic across history. He possesses a keen sense for choosing not only the key authors and texts, but also often underappreciated writers or lesser known works by famous ones. * James Joyce Literary Supplement *
A generous and inclusive anthology, focusing mainly on poetry but open also to significant pieces of prose....The engagement by these writers shows a valuable addition to the literature of the natural world. * New Hibernia Review *
