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Author | : Emily Ballou |
Publisher | : UWA Publishing |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9781742582832 |
A verse-portrait on the inner and family life of Charles Darwin; covering Darwin's dramatic personal life and experience with loss; his inner turmoil regarding the knowledge he possessed, his spiritual beliefs, and the trepidation surrounding his twenty years of work nearly being eclipsed by a younger man.
Author | : Ruth Padel |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2011-11-23 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 030795952X |
This remarkable book brings us an intimate and moving interpretation of the life and work of Charles Darwin, by Ruth Padel, an acclaimed British poet and a direct descendant of the famous scientist. Charles Darwin, born in 1809, lost his mother at the age of eight, repressed all memory of her, and poured his passion into solitary walks, newt collecting, and shooting. His five-year voyage on H.M.S. Beagle, when he was in his twenties, changed his life. Afterward, he began publishing his findings and working privately on groundbreaking theories about the development of animal species, including human beings, and he made a nervous proposal to his cousin Emma. Padel’s poems sparkle with nuance and feeling as she shows us the marriage that ensued, and the rich, creative atmosphere the Darwins provided for their ten children. Charles and Emma were happy in each other, but both were painfully aware of the gulf between her deep Christian faith and his increasing religious doubt. The death of three of their children accentuated this gulf. For Darwin, death and extinction were nature’s way of developing new species: the survival of the fittest; for Emma, death was a prelude to the afterlife. These marvelous poems—enriched by helpful marginal notes and by Padel’s ability to move among multiple viewpoints, always keeping Darwin at the center—bring to life the great scientist as well as the private man and tender father. This is a biography in rare form, with an unquantifiable depth of family intimacy and warmth.
Author | : Erasmus Darwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1824 |
Genre | : Botany |
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Author | : Sarah Rose Nordgren |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2017-11-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0822983168 |
In Darwin's Mother, curious beasts are excavated in archeological digs, Charles Darwin's daughter describes the challenges of breeding pigeons, and a forest of trees shift and sigh in their sleep. With a keen sense of irony that rejects an anthropocentric worldview and an imagination both philosophical and playful, the poems in this collection are marked by a tireless curiosity about the intricate workings of life, consciousness, and humanity's place in the universe.
Author | : John Holmes |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-10-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748687777 |
A comprehensive study of Darwin's legacy for religion, ecology and the arts. Includes over 50 complete poems and long extracts with an interpretative framework and close readings. Poets examined include Tennyson, Browning, Hardy, Frost, Ted Hughes, Pattia
Author | : Philip Appleman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780253220929 |
The world of Charles Darwin imagined in poetry and art
Author | : Lorine Niedecker |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2002-05-23 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 052093542X |
"The Brontës had their moors, I have my marshes," Lorine Niedecker wrote of flood-prone Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where she lived most of her life. Her life by water, as she called it, could not have been further removed from the avant-garde poetry scene where she also made a home. Niedecker is one of the most important poets of her generation and an essential member of the Objectivist circle. Her work attracted high praise from her peers--Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Cid Corman, Clayton Eshleman--with whom she exchanged life-sustaining letters. Niedecker was also a major woman poet who interrogated issues of gender, domesticity, work, marriage, and sexual politics long before the modern feminist movement. Her marginal status, both geographically and as a woman, translates into a major poetry. Niedecker's lyric voice is one of the most subtle and sensuous of the twentieth century. Her ear is constantly alive to sounds of nature, oddities of vernacular speech, textures of vowels and consonants. Often compared to Emily Dickinson, Niedecker writes a poetry of wit and emotion, cosmopolitan experimentation and down-home American speech. This much-anticipated volume presents all of Niedecker's surviving poetry, plays, and creative prose in the sequence of their composition. It includes many poems previously unpublished in book form plus all of Niedecker's surviving 1930s surrealist work and her 1936-46 folk poetry, bringing to light the formative experimental phases of her early career. With an introduction that offers an account of the poet's life and notes that provide detailed textual information, this book will be the definitive reader's and scholar's edition of Niedecker's work.
Author | : Erasmus Darwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1804 |
Genre | : Cosmology |
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Author | : Philip Appleman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Erasmus Darwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1804 |
Genre | : Cosmology |
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