Erasmus Darwin and the Romantic Poets
Description
Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) had the highest reputation among living English poets during much of the 1790s, through the great success of his long poem in rhyming couplets, The Botanic Garden, published complete in 1792. In this new book Desmond King-Hele shows in convincing detail how Darwin greatly influenced five major English Romantic poets, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats, and many other poets of the time, such as Crabbe and Campbell (but not Byron).
Keywords
DARWIN, ERASMUS, 1731-1802ENGLISH POETRY_HISTORY AND CRITICISM_18TH CENTURYENGLISH POETRY_HISTORY AND CRITICISM_19TH CENTURYLITERATURE AND SCIENCEROMANTICISMSCIENCE IN LITERATURENATURE IN LITERATURE
1986Book
Author(s)D. G. King-Hele
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780333390108
LanguageEnglish
