BOOKS - Darwin's Bards
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Darwin's Bards
Author: John Holmes
Year: 2009
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 8.9 MB
Language: English
Year: 2009
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 8.9 MB
Language: English
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 BardsCawdorModern LoveFatal Interview
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