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In the nineteenth century the beauty of the night sky is the source of both imaginative wonder in poetry and political and commercial power through navigation. The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy examines the impact of astronomical discovery and imperial exploration on poets including Barbauld, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Rossetti
Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The First International Event and the First "New" Planet: Expanding the Globe and Confronting Infinity; 2 Barbauld: "Embryo Systems and Unkindled Suns"; 3 Coleridge: Herschel and Cosmogonical Time; 4 John Herschel and Mary Somerville: Astronomical Legacy and the Proprietary British Scientist; 5 Astronomy and Empire: The Pathos of Demystification in Lamia and The Witch of Atlas; 6 Rossetti: Reconciliation and Recursivity; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index
