NP but Cornell, Ithaca, A.A. Ammons and Abrams' "Natural Supernaturalism". Only if interested, otherwise a probable waste of your time.

[Mark Kohut]

A.R. "Archie" Ammons is a poet I've long loved. Speaking of the new year,
I used to give copies of his *Tape for the Turn of the Year* to good
friends for Xmas. So fun, so slyly witty, it is time for a reread.
(the form of this poem is that he put a roll of adding machine tape into
his typewriter and started writing. Not all at once until done, just
spontaneously and wittily w seriousness for most of January (or beyond).
Archie & Mehitabel-like; or a homebound On the Road.)

He spent his life in Ithaca, living away from its center.  He taught at
Cornell all his life.

I have just been reading some of his other work, mostly short poems. I
could feel me some Emerson, and with the embedded ideas think me some
Stevens ( I think) ; I could feel nature ala Frost (but he's off as a
comparison) and some ideas thrown off by it---here is one: he has a great
line somewhere else scoring post-modernists and post-structuralists and
other thinkers in that vein---and I'm sure this is not exact, but the way I
project my memory of it ----" I'll debate "reality' with any post-modernist
while they help me try to start my car at minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit
because I need medicine for my child".

Anyway, the associational reason for this post is reading these poems now I
can see clearly, I think, the overarching theme explored in Abrams'
study--and which I have tentatively suggested re part of the Pynchon of
Against the Day: that extended Romantic coda called Natural
Supernaturalism. Kinda everywhere.

So, is it in the air and water there at Cornell, in Ithaca? Did Abrams'
Romantics speak to all the writers?

See a definition from 1907:
https://books.google.com/books?id=_EcPAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=%22natural%20supernaturalism%22%20&f=false

see Abrams' book:
https://books.google.com/books?id=-ygCZmrJ2E4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22natural+supernaturalism%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKiYzw4czfAhUPJt8KHUoYA6YQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=%22natural%20supernaturalism%22&f=false