Reading Edward Thomas in the Anthropocene

摘要: As has been widely remarked, the Anthropocene done strange things to our sense of time. The coincidence deep time past and potentially catastrophic futures in present-day consumption fossil fuels led what Timothy Clark called a derangement scale. This article proposes that work Edward Thomas offers mode reading thinking across multiple scales suitable disjunctive Anthropocene. Concentrating on Thomas’ decentred perspectives, his interleaving sound syntax innovation form fractal poetics, I argue ecological sensibility anticipates both radical interconnectedness Morton’s ‘ecological thought’, Barbara Adam calls ‘time ecology’: landscapes constituted by other times. Reading involves poetics ecology – open, present enduring already-occurring future appropriate temporal distortions