Scientific Thought in Poetry / / Ralph B. Crum.
Considers in chronological order poetry concerned with science to examine a steady progression in scientific thought in poetry from pre-Newtonian science, to Darwin, and Goethe.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1931] ©1931 |
| Year of Publication: | 1931 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I. SCIENCE AND POETRY
- CHAPTER II. PRE-NEWTONIAN SCIENCE IN POETRY LUCRETIUS
- CHAPTER III. POETRY AND THE NEW SCIENCE
- CHAPTER IV. POETRY SOLEMNLY SURVEYS THE NEWTONIAN WORLD MACHINE
- CHAPTER V. POETRY ADVANCES A STEP TOWARDS THE CONCEPTION OF THE WORLD MACHINE: VOLTAIRE AND ANDRÉ CHÉNIER
- CHAPTER VI. POETRY SMILES AT A GROWING WORLD ERASMUS DARWIN
- CHAPTER VII. POETRY CHAMPIONS EVOLUTION GOETHE
- CHAPTER VIII. NATURE RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW TENNYSON'S PROBLEM
- CHAPTER IX. THE POET'S DILEMMA-REASON OR MYSTICISM
- CHAPTER X. IN CONCLUSION: JOHN DAVIDSON
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX