Author: James Venable LoganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Darwin, Erasmus
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The Poetry and Aesthetics of Erasmus Darwin
Author: James Venable LoganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Darwin, Erasmus
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society
Author: Erasmus DarwinPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society" (A Poem, with Philosophical Notes) by Erasmus Darwin. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin
Author: Martin PriestmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317020987
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
While historians of science have focused significant attention on Erasmus Darwin’s scientific ideas and milieu, relatively little attention has been paid to Darwin as a literary writer. In The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times, Martin Priestman situates Darwin’s three major poems - The Loves of the Plants (1789), The Economy of Vegetation (1791) and The Temple of Nature (1803) - and Darwin himself within a large, polymathic late-Enlightenment network of other scientists, writers, thinkers and social movers and shakers. Interpreting Darwin’s poetry in terms of Darwin’s broader sense of the poetic text as a material space, he posits a significant shift from the Enlightenment’s emphases on conceptual spaces to the Romantic period’s emphases on historical time. He shows how Darwin’s poetry illuminates his stance toward all the major physical sciences and his well-formulated theories of evolution and materially based psychology. Priestman’s study also offers the first substantial accounts of Darwin’s mythological theories and their links to Enlightenment Rosicrucianism and Freemansonry, and of the reading of history that emerges from the fragment-poem The Progress of Society, a first-ever printed edition of which is included in an appendix. Ultimately, Priestman’s book offers readers a sustained account of Darwin’s polymathic Enlightenment worldview and cognate poetics in a period when texts are too often judged by their adherence to a retrospectively constructed ’Romanticism’.
Erasmus Darwin
Author: Donald M. HasslerPublisher: New York : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Comedian as the Letter D: Erasmus Darwin’s Comic Materialism
Author: D.M. HasslerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401024618
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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 Botanic Garden by Erasmus Darwin
Author: Adam KomisarukPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781848935655
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The career of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) affords an extraordinary glimpse into the intellectual ferment of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As a popular poet, practicing physician, inventor of speaking machines and mechanical birds, essayer of natural history from geology to meteorology, and proponent of an evolutionary theory that inspired his famous grandson Charles, he left a lasting impression on almost every branch of knowledge. His magnum opus, and the synthesis of his myriad interests, is The Botanic Garden (1792) -- an epic poem that aims to "enlist the Imagination under the banner of Science." Part I, The Economy of Vegetation, sings the praises of British industry as a dance of supernatural creatures while part II, The Loves of the Plants, wittily employs metaphors of human courtship to describe the reproductive cycles of hundreds of flowers. Darwin supplements his accomplished verses with (often much longer) "philosophical notes" that offer his idiosyncratic perspective on the scholarly controversies of the day. Despite a recent surge of academic interest in Darwin, however, no authoritative critical edition of The Botanic Garden exists, presenting a barrier to further scholarship. This two volume set comprises a complete, meticulously transcribed, reading text -- including all the poetry, prose apparatus, and illustrations -- along with extensive commentary. Throughout Darwin is situated within contemporary debates about the natural sciences, the "science of the mind," aesthetics, sexuality, politics, and spirituality, among other concerns. This set will be of interest to readers across these and related disciplines as the definitive reference edition of The Botanic Garden and due to its efforts to make the work more practically and intellectually accessible to seasoned and novice readers alike.
The Golden Age ; The Temple of Nature
Author: Erasmus DarwinPublisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Botanic Garden; a Poem, Etc. [By Erasmus Darwin, the Elder.] (Part I. The Second Edition.-Part II. The Fourth Edition.).
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Author: Erasmus DarwinThe Poetical Works Of Erasmus Darwin, M. D. F. R. S. Containing The Botanic Garden, In Two Parts; And The Temple Of Nature. With Philosophical Notes And Plates ; In Three Volumes
Author: Erasmus DarwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Botanic Garden
Author: Erasmus DarwinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781315534695
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The career of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) affords an extraordinary glimpse into the intellectual ferment of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As a popular poet, practicing physician, inventor of speaking machines and mechanical birds, essayer of natural history from geology to meteorology, and proponent of an evolutionary theory that inspired his famous grandson Charles, he left a lasting impression on almost every branch of knowledge. His magnum opus, and the synthesis of his myriad interests, is The Botanic Garden (1792) -- an epic poem that aims to "enlist the Imagination under the banner of Science." Part I, The Economy of Vegetation, sings the praises of British industry as a dance of supernatural creatures while part II, The Loves of the Plants, wittily employs metaphors of human courtship to describe the reproductive cycles of hundreds of flowers. Darwin supplements his accomplished verses with (often much longer) "philosophical notes" that offer his idiosyncratic perspective on the scholarly controversies of the day. Despite a recent surge of academic interest in Darwin, however, no authoritative critical edition of The Botanic Garden exists, presenting a barrier to further scholarship. This two volume set comprises a complete, meticulously transcribed, reading text -- including all the poetry, prose apparatus, and illustrations -- along with extensive commentary. Throughout Darwin is situated within contemporary debates about the natural sciences, the "science of the mind", aesthetics, sexuality, politics, and spirituality, among other concerns. This set will be of interest to readers across these and related disciplines as the definitive reference edition of The Botanic Garden and due to its efforts to make the work more practically and intellectually accessible to seasoned and novice readers alike.