Runciman, Lex, "Knocking on Nature's Door: Religious Meaning in Twentieth Century U.S. Poetry," Literature of Nature, Patrick Murphy, editor, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998.
This essay has a section devoted to Oliver discussing her notion of nature as "an ever-renewing and endlessly elemental present."
Oliver, Mary American Primitive,Boston: Little Brown, 1983.
This collection of Oliver's poems won the Pulitzer Prize and is primarily concerned with pastoral subject matter.
Oliver, Mary, House of Light, Boston: Beacon, 1990. This.....
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