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Darwin's bards: British and American poetry in the age of evolution

2010; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 47; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.47-5501

1943-5975

John Holmes,

American Literature and Culture

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].