Scientific Thought in Poetry / Ralph B. Crum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crum, Ralph B., author.

Series:

Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1931]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89025-7

OCLC:

1100443437