The Poetry of John Tyndall / / edited by Roland Jackson, Nicola Jackson, Daniel Brown.
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.
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| Superior document: | Comparative literature and culture |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : UCL Press,, 2020. ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Comparative literature and culture.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 pages). |
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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.