Download or read book The Transatlantic Eco-Romanticism of Gary Snyder written by Paige Tovey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing connections between Gary Snyder and his Romantic and Transcendentalist predecessors - Wordsworth, Blake, Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau - this study explores the tension between urbanization and overindustrialization. The dialectical relationship between Snyder and his predecessors reminds readers that nature is never a simple concept.