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  1. The poetry of Erasmus Darwin
    enlightened spaces, romantic times
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Burlington, VT [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, Zentralbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1472419553; 9781472419552
    Subjects: Darwin, Erasmus; Lyrik;
    Other subjects: Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
    Scope: Online-Ressource (XIII, 310 S.), Ill., graph. Darst.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Dr Darwin, the everythingEnlightened spaces -- Texts and gardens -- Plants -- Machinery -- Matter (1): evolution -- Matter (2): bodies and minds -- Myths -- Aesthetics, sex and history: Darwin and Richard Payne Knight -- Politics -- Romantic times (1): Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth -- Romantic times (1): other poets.

  2. The poetry of Erasmus Darwin
    enlightened spaces, romantic times
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Burlington, VT

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781472419552; 1472419553; 9781472419569; 1472419561; 9781472419545
    Subjects: POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Lyrik
    Other subjects: Darwin, Erasmus / 1731-1802; Darwin, Erasmus / 1731-1802; Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802); Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
    Scope: 1 online resource, illustrations
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    Dr Darwin, the everything -- Enlightened spaces -- Texts and gardens -- Plants -- Machinery -- Matter (1): evolution -- Matter (2): bodies and minds -- Myths -- Aesthetics, sex and history: Darwin and Richard Payne Knight -- Politics -- Romantic times (1): Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth -- Romantic times (1): other poets

    In his study of Erasmus Darwin's major poetry, Priestman situates his literary works and Darwin himself within a network of other scientists, writers, thinkers and social movers and shakers. Positing a significant shift from the Enlightenment's emphases on conceptual spaces to the Romantic period's emphases on historical time, Priestman gives Darwin's polymathic Enlightenment worldview and cognate poetics their due in a period when texts are too often judged by their adherence to a retrospectively constructed 'Romanticism'