The Poetry of John Tyndall / / edited by Roland Jackson, Nicola Jackson, Daniel Brown.

• Superior document: Comparative literature and culture
• TeilnehmendeR: Brown, Daniel,; Jackson, Nicola,; Jackson, Roland,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : UCL Press,, 2020.; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Comparative literature and culture.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 pages).

The Poetry of John Tyndall contains the 76 extant poems of leading scientist and philosopher, John Tyndall c.1822-1893. The poems are complemented by an extended introduction that addresses the relationship between science and poetry.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Editorial principles and abbreviations -- Poetry in context -- John Tyndall: The poems -- 1 Acrostic (Maria) -- 2 In praise of Bruen -- 3 The Leighlin "Orators"-or, 'The late repeal meeting' -- 4 Carlow -- 5 The testimonial -- 6 The battle of the constitution is to be fought at the registry -- 7 Landlord and tenant -- 8 Lines sent with a forget me not -- 9 Acrostic (Christina Tidmarsh) -- 10 To Ginty -- 11 To Chadwick -- 12 Suggested on hearing High Mass in Saint Wilfred's Chapel -- 13 On leaving Westmorland -- 14 An Hibernian's Song. To- -- 15 Pour mon cher Jack -- 16 Such bliss -- 17 The day is gone -- 18 The aerial phantazies of youth -- 19 Acrostic (Elizabeth Barton) -- 20 Acrostic (Miss Hebdon) -- 21 To N-T -- 22 Acrostic (Jane) -- 23 More musical than twenty dozen rills -- 24 The star that gems life's morning sky -- 25 We must part a while -- 26 Oh Mary pon my soul -- 27 A desolate forlorn swain -- 28 Dont you remember love -- 29 With cloudy head -- 30 To Elizabeth -- 31 On being caught oversleeping when the postman came -- 32 Tyndall's Ossian -- 33 No more dear Bill 34 The past -- 35 Yet, if to calm ungifted sight -- 36 Why did I e'er behold thee: A Valentine -- 37 Various couplets -- 38 I tread the land -- 39 The Sky, apostrophe to Friendship -- 40 And must I touch the string -- 41 Oh my cottage! -- 42 From the high hill -- 43 Johnny my dear -- 44 Beacon Hill -- 45 To Fanny -- 46 Retrospective poem -- 47 A snail crawled forth -- 48 Tidmarsh's nose -- 49 The awful 30th -- 50 Acrostic -- 51 The clown and the bees: a fable after the manner of Aesop -- 52 The joys and the wishes -- 53 Society -- 54 All smatterers are more brisk and pert -- 55 Our seasons of joy -- 56 Alone -- 57 There is no cloud in heaven tonight -- 58 I cannot write of love as poets do -- 59 Brave hills of Thuring -- 60 To McArthur -- 61 My story of "the Screen" -- 62 Common the hum of the bee -- 63 On the death of Dean Bernard -- 64 Hail to thee, mighty runner! -- 65 The heights of Science -- 66 Dear Tom, the sky is gray -- 67 Meditations before breakfast -- 68 God bless thee Poet! -- 69 The morning bell -- 70 Ballad of the Isle of Wight -- 71 What though the mountain breezes -- 72 The sea holds jubilee this sunny morn -- 73 There was an unfortunate Divil -- 74 To the moon 75 The queenly moon -- 76 From the Alps: a fragment/A morning on Alp Lusgen -- Select Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Index of Names.