John Holmes

Darwin's Bards (eBook, ePUB)

British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution

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Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive study of how poets have responded to the ideas of Charles Darwin in over fifty yearsIn Darwin's Bards John Holmes argues that poetry can have a profound impact on how we think and feel about the human condition in a Darwinian world. Including over fifty complete poems and substantial extracts from several more, Holmes shows how poets from Tennyson and Browning, through Hardy and Frost, to Ted Hughes, Pattiann Rogers and Edwin Morgan have responded to the discovery of evolution. Written for scientists, philosophers and ecologists, as well as poets, critics and students of literature, Darwin's Bards is a timely intervention into the heated debates over Darwin's legacy for 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 book

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748687770
• Artikelnr.: 56903609

Autorenporträt

John Holmes is Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Late Victorian Sonnet-Sequence: Sexuality, Belief and the Self (Ashgate, 2005) and the editor of Science in Modern Poetry: New Directions (Liverpool University Press, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Preface 1. Poetry in the Age of Darwin Science, poetry and
literary criticism Whose 'Darwinism'? The Darwinian tradition in modern
poetry Poetry and Darwinism in practice: Three poems by Edwin Morgan 2.
Poetry and the 'Non-Darwinian Revolution' Non-Darwinian evolution in late
Victorian poetry Pseudo-Darwinism and bad faith: A. C., Swinburne and
Mathilde Blind Reading A Reading of Earth: George Meredith's later poetry
Doubting progress: Science and evolution in Tennyson's last poems 3. God:
Darwinism, Christianity and theology Happenstance or design? Two sonnets
Natural theology: Robert Browning's 'Caliban upon Setebos' God after
Darwin: Three contemporary American poets and the Book of Job 4. Death:
Darwinism, death and immortality 'In the Woods;: George Meredith Death and
dying: Robinson Jeffers Love and loss: Thomas Hardy 5. Humanity's Place in
Nature 'The exact centre', or just another African ape? 'An idiot on a
crumbling throne': The cosmic perspective 'Earths catastrophe': The
planetary perspective 'All we've got': The human perspective 6. Humans and
Other Animals More than kin and less than kind At 'the master-fulcrum of
violence': Hawks and falcons 'A diminished thing': Songbirds and birdsong
'Someone else additional to him': Deer in modern poetry 7. Love and Sex
Darwinism and sex A Darwinian sex comedy: Constance Haden's 'Evolutional
Erotics' The Darwinian love sonnet: George Meredith and Edna St Vincent
Millay Metamorphosis: Thom Gunn and the human animal 8. On Balance For
better or for worse 'The just proportion of good to ill': Weighing up
evolution Disenchantment and re-enchantment: The power of paradox Darwin's
pagans: Meredith's 'Ode3' and Tennyson's 'Lucretius' Conclusion
Bibliography Index Poems in Darwin's Bards: A. 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]