Poetry and ecology in the age of Milton and Marvell

Introduction : the state of nature and the problem of language

Perceiving habitats : Marvell and the language of sensuous reciprocity

Earth, mining, monotheism, and mountain theology

Air, water, woods

Hylozoic poetry : the lives of plants

Zoic poetry : animals, ornithology, and the ethics of empathy

Animal ethics and radical justice

Milton's prophetic epics.