Darwin's Bards British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution

Name: Darwin's Bards British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution
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ISBN: 9780748692071

ISBN-10: 074869207X

ISBN-13: 9780748692071

Edition: 2009

Authors: John Holmes

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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…

Book details

Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 10/16/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 9.00" wide x 6.10" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English