Virgil and "new environmental writing"

So weird to hear people talking about things you study, when you think nobody else gets it: Jordan Fisher Smith, one of the speakers at ASLE's Wednesday evening panel on Orion Magazine and "the new environmental writing," wound up describing much nature writing as "epiphanies from pretty places," inherited from Virgil's Georgics.

He was suggesting that this is what "the new environmental writing" takes as its point of departure, but still -- nice to be on the same page with someone unknown to me.

And what's more, one of the other two panellists, Ginger Strand, wrote an article on Virgil and America in The Believer last year!

Update:
Fred Chappell also talks about Virgil's poem as one of the classics, so maybe it's just in the clear Spartanburg air....

Comments

My nerd score is 11. I feel inferior.
richard said…
Eleven? Really? You should feel inferior :-)
All those years of cultivating it all for naught...
fiona-h said…
mine is 21. richard - yours is very high :-) Especially for someone in the arts...

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