Author: Robert M. HazenPublisher: Unwin Hyman
ISBN: 9780048080325
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The Poetry of Geology
Author: Robert M. HazenPublisher: Unwin Hyman
ISBN: 9780048080325
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Poems on Geology, Metals, Minerals, and Mining
Author: Susan IoannouPublisher: Wordwrights Canada
ISBN: 092083552X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Much past Canadian poetry described our people and landscape in lyrical terms. Combining research and wonder, this book burrows deeper—the first collection of poems in Canada devoted exclusively to geology and mining. Quite literally, it goes underground. From volcanoes to vitamins, the book presents a wealth of factual information. It also explores past, more fanciful notions about how rocks, metals, and minerals fit into our human picture. In its pages, knowledge and imagination meet. Part I introduces a little basic geology. Part II focuses on the seven metals of the ancients, linked to the planets and days of the week, plus platinum and uranium. Part III delves into myths and legends about the power of gemstones. Part IV looks at the history and technology of mining, and its social and economic impact. A helpful glossary concludes this unique book that brings science and poetry together.
A Geological Primer in Verse
Author: John ScafeWordsworth and the Geologists
Author: John WyattPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521472593
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Examination of the links between science and literary history is providing new insight for scholars across a range of disciplines. In Wordsworth and the Geologists, first published in 1995, John Wyatt explores the relationship between a major Romantic poet and a group of scientists in the formative years of a new discipline, geology. Wordsworth's later poems and prose display unexpected knowledge of contemporary geology and a preoccupation with many of the philosophical issues concerned with the developing science of geology. Letters and diaries of a group of leading geologists reveal that they knew Wordsworth, and discussed their subject with him. Wyatt shows how the implications of such discussions challenge the simplistic version of 'two cultures', the Romantic-literary against the scientific-materialistic; and he reminds us of the variety of interrelating discourses current between 1807 (the year of the foundation of the Geological Society of London) and 1850 (the year of Wordsworth's death).
The Poetry of Geology
Author: Reginald Frank BlackwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Tennyson and Geology
Author: Michelle GericPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319661108
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book offers new interpretations of Tennyson’s major poems along-side contemporary geology, and specifically Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology (1830-3). Employing various approaches – from close readings of both the poetic and geological texts, historical contextualisation and the application of Bakhtin’s concept of dialogism – the book demonstrates not only the significance of geology for Tennyson’s poetry, but the vital import of Tennyson’s poetics in explicating the implications of geology for the nineteenth century and beyond. Gender ideologies in The Princess (1847) are read via High Miller’s geology, while the writings of Lyell and other contemporary geologist, comparative anatomists and language theorists are examined along-side In Memoriam (1851) and Maud (1855). The book argues that Tennyson’s experimentation with Lyell’s geology produced a remarkable ‘uniformitarian’ poetics that is best understood via Bakhtinian theory; a poetics that reveals the seminal role methodologies in geology played in the development of divisions between science and culture, and that also, quite profoundly, anticipates the crisis in language later associated with the linguistic turn of the twentieth century.
Geology, and Other Poems ...
Author: Pleydell WiltonThe Poetry of Geology
Author: Kenneth Knight HallowesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780713453232
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Geology
Author: Willie L. WatsonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781535277556
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
A series of poems analyzing the connections between language and the physical universe, among other topics.
Looking Through Stone
Author: Susan IoannouPublisher: Wordwrights Canada
ISBN: 0920835341
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Much past Canadian poetry described our people and landscape in lyrical terms. Combining research and wonder, Looking Through Stone burrows deeper -- the first collection of poems in Canada devoted exclusively to geology and mining. Quite literally, it goes underground. From volcanoes to vitamins, the book presents a wealth of factual information. It also explores past, more fanciful notions about how rocks, metals, and minerals fit into our human picture. In its pages, knowledge and imagination meet. Part I introduces a little basic geology. Part II focuses on the seven metals of the ancients, linked to the planets and days of the week, plus platinum and uranium. Part III delves into myths and legends about the power of gemstones. Part IV looks at the history and technology of mining, and its social and economic impact. A helpful glossary concludes this unique book that brings science and poetry together.