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Examination of the links between science and literary history is providing new insight for scholars across a range of disciplines. In Wordsworth and the Geologists John Wyatt explores the hitherto unexamined relationship between a major Romantic poet and a group of scientists in the formative years of a new discipline, geology.
Wordsworth's later poems and prose display unexpected knowledge of contemporary geology and a preoccupation with many of the philosophical issues concerned with the developing science of geology. Letters and diaries of a group of leading geologists reveal that they knew Wordsworth, and discussed their subject with him.
Wyatt shows how the implications of such discussions challenge the simplistic version of 'two cultures', the Romantic-literary against the scientific materialistic; and he reminds us of the variety of interrelating discourses current between 1807 (the year of the foundation of the Geological Society of London) and 1850 (the year of Wordsworth's death).
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History, Earth sciences, Knowledge, Geology, Earth sciences in literature, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Romanticism, Geology in literature, Literature and science, Wordsworth, william, 1770-1850, Geology, great britain, Romanticism, great britain, Knowledge and learningPlaces
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-264) and index.
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