Author: John Holmes
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748687777
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A comprehensive study of Darwin's legacy for religion, ecology and the arts. Includes over 50 complete poems and long extracts with an interpretative framework and close readings. Poets examined include Tennyson, Browning, Hardy, Frost, Ted Hughes, Pattia
Darwin's Bards
Author: John Holmes
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748687777
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A comprehensive study of Darwin's legacy for religion, ecology and the arts. Includes over 50 complete poems and long extracts with an interpretative framework and close readings. Poets examined include Tennyson, Browning, Hardy, Frost, Ted Hughes, Pattia
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748687777
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A comprehensive study of Darwin's legacy for religion, ecology and the arts. Includes over 50 complete poems and long extracts with an interpretative framework and close readings. Poets examined include Tennyson, Browning, Hardy, Frost, Ted Hughes, Pattia
Rereading Darwin’s Origin of Species
Author: Richard G. Delisle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350259586
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Widely seen as evolution's founding figure, Charles Darwin is taken by many evolutionists to be the first to propose a truly modern theory of evolution. Darwin's greatness, however, has obscured the man and his work, at times even to the point of distortion. Accessibly written, this book presents a more nuanced picture and invites us to discover some neglected ambiguities and contradictions in Darwin's masterwork. Delisle and Tierney show Darwin to be a man who struggled to reconcile the received wisdom of an unchanging natural world with his new ideas about evolution. Arguing that Darwin was unable to break free entirely from his contemporaries' more traditional outlook, they show his theory to be a fascinating compromise between old and new. Rediscovering this other Darwin – and this other side of On the Origin of Species – helps shed new light on the immensity of the task that lay before 19th century scholars, as well as their ultimate achievements.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350259586
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Widely seen as evolution's founding figure, Charles Darwin is taken by many evolutionists to be the first to propose a truly modern theory of evolution. Darwin's greatness, however, has obscured the man and his work, at times even to the point of distortion. Accessibly written, this book presents a more nuanced picture and invites us to discover some neglected ambiguities and contradictions in Darwin's masterwork. Delisle and Tierney show Darwin to be a man who struggled to reconcile the received wisdom of an unchanging natural world with his new ideas about evolution. Arguing that Darwin was unable to break free entirely from his contemporaries' more traditional outlook, they show his theory to be a fascinating compromise between old and new. Rediscovering this other Darwin – and this other side of On the Origin of Species – helps shed new light on the immensity of the task that lay before 19th century scholars, as well as their ultimate achievements.
Darwin's Microscope
Author: Kelley Swain
Publisher: Flambard
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
"Darwin's Microscope responds to the life and influence of Charles Darwin, and is a poet's celebration of the great biologist's achievement. Kelley Swain uses the microscopic 'lens' as a metaphor for viewing the world with secular wonder, revealing the greater meaning discovered from looking deeper - even to the cellular level. Contemplating the natural world, this young poet brings the Darwinian point of view into everyday life. Darwin's microscope brilliantly shows how science and poetry can complement and enlighten each other, to the point where they become nearly inseparable." --Book Jacket.
Publisher: Flambard
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
"Darwin's Microscope responds to the life and influence of Charles Darwin, and is a poet's celebration of the great biologist's achievement. Kelley Swain uses the microscopic 'lens' as a metaphor for viewing the world with secular wonder, revealing the greater meaning discovered from looking deeper - even to the cellular level. Contemplating the natural world, this young poet brings the Darwinian point of view into everyday life. Darwin's microscope brilliantly shows how science and poetry can complement and enlighten each other, to the point where they become nearly inseparable." --Book Jacket.
Moses, Not Darwin
Darwin, Carlyle, Dickens, the Fools, Jesters, and Comic Characters in Shakspeare, with Other Essays, &c
Author: Samuel Davey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Comedian as the Letter D: Erasmus Darwin’s Comic Materialism
Author: D.M. Hassler
Publisher: Springer
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" Wallace Stevens said somewhere that the theory of poetry is the life of poetry.l Charles Darwin, who likes poetry, "recognized that at the eost of losing his appreciation of poetry and other things that delighted him in his youth, his mind had become a 'machine for grinding generallaws out of large colleetions of facts.' "2 Somewhere in between the polar positions of Stevens' extreme aesthetic belief and Darwin's extreme meehanistic belief lies the aesthetics of empirical thought and the whole modem Romantic tradition. There have been men in between who were both meehanists and poets, who both beIieved in automatic material meehanisms and tried to use the imagination. Erasmus Darwin was one of these "in between" figures. and since he lived early (1731-1802) in the modem scientific era he was one of the first. This older Darwin, the grandfather of Charles, has not been given due credit as a transitional figure in the development of the literature of our scientific era. Although historically and in terms of intelleetual stature the grandfather was a fanciful child compared to the giant grand soo, Erasmus Darwin's habits of thought anticipated one of the most distinguishing charaeteristics of his grandson. (The genetic suggestive.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" Wallace Stevens said somewhere that the theory of poetry is the life of poetry.l Charles Darwin, who likes poetry, "recognized that at the eost of losing his appreciation of poetry and other things that delighted him in his youth, his mind had become a 'machine for grinding generallaws out of large colleetions of facts.' "2 Somewhere in between the polar positions of Stevens' extreme aesthetic belief and Darwin's extreme meehanistic belief lies the aesthetics of empirical thought and the whole modem Romantic tradition. There have been men in between who were both meehanists and poets, who both beIieved in automatic material meehanisms and tried to use the imagination. Erasmus Darwin was one of these "in between" figures. and since he lived early (1731-1802) in the modem scientific era he was one of the first. This older Darwin, the grandfather of Charles, has not been given due credit as a transitional figure in the development of the literature of our scientific era. Although historically and in terms of intelleetual stature the grandfather was a fanciful child compared to the giant grand soo, Erasmus Darwin's habits of thought anticipated one of the most distinguishing charaeteristics of his grandson. (The genetic suggestive.
The Story of a Short Life, Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot [and Lob Lie-by-the-fire]
Author: Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1922
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1922
Book Description
The Works of Lord Byron
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Journal of Mental Science
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Vol. 77- includes Yearbook of the Association, 1931-
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Vol. 77- includes Yearbook of the Association, 1931-