Spirituality in Mary Oliver’s Poetry
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31973/aj.v2i137.1626Keywords:
Mary Oliver, PoetryAbstract
Mary Oliver is an American poet who has been so much fascinated by the natural world since her childhood. Natural world occupies a very large space in her poetry, if not her entire poetic work. She was born in Ohio 1935, and she spent her childhood there surrounded by Nature. She graduated from high school and went to Vassar college and Ohio State University, yet she could not get a degree. She moved to New York where she met the sister of Edna St. Vincent Millay, the famous American poet and playwright. She got a closer look to Edna’s works by organizing her papers for almost seven years. As for career, she held the position at Bennington College by being the Catherine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching. Later on she settled in Provincetown, Massachusetts for almost forty years inspired by the natural scenes there which are conveyed in her collections.
Downloads
References
Bonds, Diane S. “The Language of Nature in the Poetry of Mary Oliver.” Women’s Studies 21 (1992): 1-15. Academic Search Premiere. Web. 20 February. 2020.
Keegan, Bidget. “Women, Gender, and Religion.” Journal of Religion and Society 5 (2009) :149.
Knott, John. R. Imagining Wild America. Ann Arbor: Michigan University, 2002. Print
Oliver, Mary. Blue Iris: Poems and Essays. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. Print.
---. Blue Pastures. New York: Harcourt, 1995. Print.
---. Felicity. New York: Beacon Press, 2016. Print.
---. Swan: Poems and Prose Poems. Boston: Beacon Press, 2010. Print.
---. Thirst. Cambridge: Boston: Beacon Press, 2006. Print.
---. Why I Wake Early. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. Print.
---. Winter Hours. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. Print.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright and Licensing:
For all articles published in Al-Adab journal, copyright is retained by the authors. Articles are licensed under an open access Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, meaning that anyone may download and read the paper for free. In addition, the article may be reused and quoted provided that the original published version is cited. These conditions allow for maximum use and exposure of the work.
Reproducing Published Material from other Publishers: It is absolutely essential that authors obtain permission to reproduce any published material (figures, schemes, tables or any extract of a text) which does not fall into the public domain, or for which they do not hold the copyright. Permission should be requested by the authors from the copyrightholder (usually the Publisher, please refer to the imprint of the individual publications to identify the copyrightholder).
Permission is required for: Your own works published by other Publishers and for which you did not retain copyright.
Substantial extracts from anyones' works or a series of works.
Use of Tables, Graphs, Charts, Schemes and Artworks if they are unaltered or slightly modified.
Photographs for which you do not hold copyright.
Permission is not required for: Reconstruction of your own table with data already published elsewhere. Please notice that in this case you must cite the source of the data in the form of either "Data from..." or "Adapted from...".
Reasonably short quotes are considered fair use and therefore do not require permission.
Graphs, Charts, Schemes and Artworks that are completely redrawn by the authors and significantly changed beyond recognition do not require permission.
Obtaining Permission
In order to avoid unnecessary delays in the publication process, you should start obtaining permissions as early as possible. If in any doubt about the copyright, apply for permission. Al-Adab Journal cannot publish material from other publications without permission.
The copyright holder may give you instructions on the form of acknowledgement to be followed; otherwise follow the style: "Reproduced with permission from [author], [book/journal title]; published by [publisher], [year].' at the end of the caption of the Table, Figure or Scheme.
How to Cite
