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Scientific Thought in Poetry / Ralph B. Crum.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative LiteraturePublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1931]Copyright date: ©1931Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780231927468
  • 9780231890250
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I. SCIENCE AND POETRY -- CHAPTER II. PRE-NEWTONIAN SCIENCE IN POETRY LUCRETIUS -- CHAPTER III. POETRY AND THE NEW SCIENCE -- CHAPTER IV. POETRY SOLEMNLY SURVEYS THE NEWTONIAN WORLD MACHINE -- CHAPTER V. POETRY ADVANCES A STEP TOWARDS THE CONCEPTION OF THE WORLD MACHINE: VOLTAIRE AND ANDRÉ CHÉNIER -- CHAPTER VI. POETRY SMILES AT A GROWING WORLD ERASMUS DARWIN -- CHAPTER VII. POETRY CHAMPIONS EVOLUTION GOETHE -- CHAPTER VIII. NATURE RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW TENNYSON'S PROBLEM -- CHAPTER IX. THE POET'S DILEMMA-REASON OR MYSTICISM -- CHAPTER X. IN CONCLUSION: JOHN DAVIDSON -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: Considers in chronological order poetry concerned with science to examine a steady progression in scientific thought in poetry from pre-Newtonian science, to Darwin, and Goethe.
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I. SCIENCE AND POETRY -- CHAPTER II. PRE-NEWTONIAN SCIENCE IN POETRY LUCRETIUS -- CHAPTER III. POETRY AND THE NEW SCIENCE -- CHAPTER IV. POETRY SOLEMNLY SURVEYS THE NEWTONIAN WORLD MACHINE -- CHAPTER V. POETRY ADVANCES A STEP TOWARDS THE CONCEPTION OF THE WORLD MACHINE: VOLTAIRE AND ANDRÉ CHÉNIER -- CHAPTER VI. POETRY SMILES AT A GROWING WORLD ERASMUS DARWIN -- CHAPTER VII. POETRY CHAMPIONS EVOLUTION GOETHE -- CHAPTER VIII. NATURE RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW TENNYSON'S PROBLEM -- CHAPTER IX. THE POET'S DILEMMA-REASON OR MYSTICISM -- CHAPTER X. IN CONCLUSION: JOHN DAVIDSON -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Considers in chronological order poetry concerned with science to examine a steady progression in scientific thought in poetry from pre-Newtonian science, to Darwin, and Goethe.

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In English.

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