Darwin's Bards : : British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution / / John Holmes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Holmes, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Preface --; 1 Poetry in the Age of Darwin --; 2 Poetry and the ‘Non-Darwinian Revolution’ --; 3 God --; 4 Death --; 5 Humanity’s Place in Nature --; 6 Humans and Other Animals --; 7 Love and Sex --; 8 On Balance --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748640904; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748640904
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John Holmes.

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN: 9780748692071','ISBN: 9780748640904','ISBN:9780748683413']);How the most powerful and perceptive British and American poets grapple with the questions raised by DarwinismWith more than 50 complete poems and wide-ranging extracts from several more, this substantial volume shows how poets responded to the discovery of evolution, from Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning and Thomas Hardy, through Robert Frost and Edna St Vincent Millay, to Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn, Amy Clampitt, Pattiann Rogers and Edwin Morgan. Written as much for scientists, philosophers and ecologists as poets, critics and students of literature, Darwin’s Bards is a timely intervention in today’s debates surrounding Darwin’s legacy for the distinct, yet related worlds of religion, ecology and the arts.The book will appeal to readers for its discussion of the existential implications of Darwinism, for its close readings of poetry, and for the reprinted poems themselves. Key FeaturesCovers poetry and ecology, as well as the implications of Darwinism for religionThe combination of complete poems and long extracts with an interpretative framework and close readings makes the book an effective and attractive text bookWant to find out more? Check out Darwin & Poetry? An Interview with John HolmesPoems in Darwin’s BardsA. R. Ammons: ‘Questionable Procedures’Philip Appleman: ‘How Evolution Came to Indiana’, ‘Waldorf-Astoria Euphoria’D. M. Black: ‘Kew Gardens’Mathilde Blind: The Ascent of Man [extracts] Robert Browning: ‘Caliban upon Setebos’ [extracts] William Canton: ‘The Latter Law’ [sonnet from a sequence]Stephen Crane: ‘A man said to the universe’Richard Eberhart: ‘Sea-Hawk’Robert Frost: ‘Design’, ‘The Oven Bird’, ‘The Most of It’, ‘Our Hold on the Planet’ Thom Gunn: ‘Adultery’, ‘The Garden of the Gods’Thomas Hardy: ‘Hap’, ‘Your Last Drive’, ‘Rain on a Grave’, ‘At Castle Boterel’, ‘An August Midnight’, ‘The Darkling Thrush’, ‘Shelley’s Skylark’, ‘The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House’, ‘To Outer Nature’, ‘On a Fine Morning’Robinson Jeffers: ‘Vulture’, Cawdor [extract], ‘Rock and Hawk’George Meredith: ‘The Woods of Westermain’ [opening lyric], ‘In the Woods’ [8 lyrics out of a sequence of 9], ‘The Lark Ascending’ [extracts], Modern Love [3 sonnets from a sequence], ‘Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn’ [extracts]Edna St Vincent Millay: ‘The Fawn’, ‘I shall forget you presently, my dear’, Fatal Interview [2 sonnets from a sequence]Edwin Morgan: ‘Eohippus’, ‘The Archaeopteryx’s Song’, ‘Trilobites’Lewis Morris: ‘Ode of Creation’ [extract]Constance Naden: ‘Natural Selection’Agnes Mary Robinson: ‘Darwinism’Pattiann Rogers: ‘Against the Ethereal’, ‘The Possible Suffering of a God During Creation’, ‘Geocentric’Neil Rollinson: ‘My Father Shaving Charles Darwin’John Addington Symonds: ‘An Old Gordian Knot’ [sonnet from a sequence]Alfred Tennyson: ‘Flower in the Crannied Wall’, ‘By an Evolutionist’, ‘The Dawn’, ‘The Making of Man’, ‘Frater Ave atque Vale’, ‘Lucretius’ [extracts]"