TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crum,Ralph B.
TI  - Scientific Thought in Poetry
T2  - Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature
SN  - 9780231927468
PY  - 1931///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/crum92746
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