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

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

John Holmes

Edinburgh University Press, c2013

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-282) and index

"First published in hardback by Edinburgh University Press 2009"--T.p. verso

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内容説明

This is a comprehensive study of Darwin's Legacy for relegion, ecology and the arts. In 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 50 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.

目次

  • 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].

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