Charles Darwin and the church of Wordsworth [electronic resource] / Robert M. Ryan.
2016
PR5892.N2 R93 2016eb
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Title
Charles Darwin and the church of Wordsworth [electronic resource] / Robert M. Ryan.
ISBN
9780191817274 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
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English
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1 online resource (2019 pages)
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198757351 doi
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PR5892.N2 R93 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
821.7
Summary
Charles Darwin presented On the Origin of Species to a reading public whose affective response to the natural world had been profoundly influenced by Wordsworth's understanding of nature as benign, harmonious, a source of moral inspiration and spiritual blessing, and a medium through which one might enter into communion with the Divine. As the 19th century's two most prominent theoreticians of nature's life, Wordsworth and Darwin competed for attention among those seeking to understand humanity's relationship with the natural world, and their disciples engaged in a productive, mutually transformative dialogue in which the poet's cultural authority influenced the way Darwin was received, and Darwinian science adjusted interpretation and evaluation of the poetry.
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Charles Darwin presented On the Origin of Species to a reading public whose affective response to the natural world had been profoundly influenced by Wordsworth's understanding of nature as benign, harmonious, a source of moral inspiration and spiritual blessing, and a medium through which one might enter into communion with the Divine. As the 19th century's two most prominent theoreticians of nature's life, Wordsworth and Darwin competed for attention among those seeking to understand humanity's relationship with the natural world, and their disciples engaged in a productive, mutually transformative dialogue in which the poet's cultural authority influenced the way Darwin was received, and Darwinian science adjusted interpretation and evaluation of the poetry.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
1 "The church of Wordsworth"
2 "A Vast all-pervading life" 3 "New holdings for religious thought"
4 "Love of nature leading to love of man"
5 "A newer meaning on the very grass".
2 "A Vast all-pervading life" 3 "New holdings for religious thought"
4 "Love of nature leading to love of man"
5 "A newer meaning on the very grass".