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Author: John Holmes (Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture, University of Birmingham)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.460kg
ISBN: 9780748692071
ISBN 10: 074869207
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 16 October 2013
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Affords subtle, precise, sharp-eyed readings of verse by such well-known Victorian poets as Tennyson, Browning, Meredith, Swinburne and Hardy, as well as more recent poems by the likes of Ted Hughes, Philip Appleman and Thom Gunn. Each of these poets, Holmes argues, grapples with the fundamental, largely unchanging challenges posed by Darwinian evolution, with the book's chapters each focusing on topics including theology, death and immortality, humanity's cosmic insignificance and relationship with other animals, and sex and reproduction... the detailed analysis of verse that deals with these issues often yields fresh insights that will be of interest to more historically minded critics. -- iBritish Journal for the History of Sciencer Poetry makes evolution conceivable, letting the ear and the imagination know that which the mind struggles to grasp. With its fine ear for poetry's engagement with the science of its age, iDarwin's Bardsr contributes to this work, encouraging an alertness to and enjoyment of the poetry of evolution. -- iTennyson Research Bulletinr Rich and meticulous analyses ... important not only because it engages oft-overlooked evolutionary poetry, but because its critical discussions provide us with a heretofore missing link in Darwinian literary criticism; in so doing, they give us new views of our Darwinian realities. -- iReview of English Studiesr A bracing, original and exciting contribution to our understanding and appreciation of the cultural impact of Darwinism; indeed, John Holmes is to be commended for writing an exhilarating and genuinely interdisciplinary study with revealing insights on every page. -- iThe Thomas Hardy Journalr
'John Holmes has produced a forceful, tightly-argued reminder of the challenge that the theory of evolution poses to many of the subjects which literature has marked as its own territory.'--Philip Martin, University of Glasgow The Kelvingrove Review One is struck equally by the magnitude of the task that Holmes took on, and his success in achieving his twin goals of tracing the influence of Darwin's theory on a range of poets, and describing the illumination that their poems can throw in turn on one of the most powerful intellectual currents of our time.--Michael Buhagiar, University of Sydney Victoriographies Vol. 4, No. 1 Darwin's Bards affords subtle, precise, sharp-eyed readings of verse by such well-known Victorian poets as Tennyson, Browning, Meredith, Swinburne and Hardy, as well as more recent poems by the likes of Ted Hughes, Philip Appleman and Thom Gunn. Each of these poets, Holmes argues, grapples with the fundamental, largely unchanging challenges posed by Darwinian evolution, with the book's chapters each focusing on topics including theology, death and immortality, humanity's cosmic insignificance and relationship with other animals, and sex and reproduction... the detailed analysis of verse that deals with these issues often yields fresh insights that will be of interest to more historically minded critics. --Gowan Dawson, University of Leicester British Journal for the History of Science Darwin's Bards is a bracing, original and exciting contribution to our understanding and appreciation of the cultural impact of Darwinism; indeed, John Holmes is to be commended for writing an exhilarating and genuinely interdisciplinary study with revealing insights on every page. --Roger Ebbatson The Thomas Hardy Journal Darwin's Bards is a welcome study. Holmes has selected a bold and expansive topic, one that needed the careful attention that he has shown it ... No doubt we will hear more about Darwin among the poets (it is to be hoped that we do), and Holmes will have provided this narrative with a fitting point of origin. --Jason David Hall, University of Exeter The British Society for Literature and Science Poetry makes evolution conceivable, letting the ear and the imagination know that which the mind struggles to grasp. With its fine ear for poetry's engagement with the science of its age, Darwin's Bards contributes to this work, encouraging an alertness to and enjoyment of the poetry of evolution. --Anna Barton, University of Sheffield Tennyson Research Bulletin Rich and meticulous analyses ... Darwin's Bards is important not only because it engages oft-overlooked evolutionary poetry, but because its critical discussions provide us with a heretofore missing link in Darwinian literary criticism; in so doing, they give us new views of our Darwinian realities. --Janine Rogers, Mount Allison University Review of English Studies
Affords subtle, precise, sharp-eyed readings of verse by such well-known Victorian poets as Tennyson, Browning, Meredith, Swinburne and Hardy, as well as more recent poems by the likes of Ted Hughes, Philip Appleman and Thom Gunn. Each of these poets, Holmes argues, grapples with the fundamental, largely unchanging challenges posed by Darwinian evolution, with the book's chapters each focusing on topics including theology, death and immortality, humanity's cosmic insignificance and relationship with other animals, and sex and reproduction... the detailed analysis of verse that deals with these issues often yields fresh insights that will be of interest to more historically minded critics. -- iBritish Journal for the History of Sciencer Poetry makes evolution conceivable, letting the ear and the imagination know that which the mind struggles to grasp. With its fine ear for poetry's engagement with the science of its age, iDarwin's Bardsr contributes to this work, encouraging an alertness to and enjoyment of the poetry of evolution. -- iTennyson Research Bulletinr Rich and meticulous analyses ... important not only because it engages oft-overlooked evolutionary poetry, but because its critical discussions provide us with a heretofore missing link in Darwinian literary criticism; in so doing, they give us new views of our Darwinian realities. -- iReview of English Studiesr A bracing, original and exciting contribution to our understanding and appreciation of the cultural impact of Darwinism; indeed, John Holmes is to be commended for writing an exhilarating and genuinely interdisciplinary study with revealing insights on every page. -- iThe Thomas Hardy Journalr Affords subtle, precise, sharp-eyed readings of verse by such well-known Victorian poets as Tennyson, Browning, Meredith, Swinburne and Hardy, as well as more recent poems by the likes of Ted Hughes, Philip Appleman and Thom Gunn. Each of these poets, Holmes argues, grapples with the fundamental, largely unchanging challenges posed by Darwinian evolution, with the book's chapters each focusing on topics including theology, death and immortality, humanity's cosmic insignificance and relationship with other animals, and sex and reproduction... the detailed analysis of verse that deals with these issues often yields fresh insights that will be of interest to more historically minded critics. -- iBritish Journal for the History of Sciencer Poetry makes evolution conceivable, letting the ear and the imagination know that which the mind struggles to grasp. With its fine ear for poetry's engagement with the science of its age, iDarwin's Bardsr contributes to this work, encouraging an alertness to and enjoyment of the poetry of evolution. -- iTennyson Research Bulletinr Rich and meticulous analyses ... important not only because it engages oft-overlooked evolutionary poetry, but because its critical discussions provide us with a heretofore missing link in Darwinian literary criticism; in so doing, they give us new views of our Darwinian realities. -- iReview of English Studiesr A bracing, original and exciting contribution to our understanding and appreciation of the cultural impact of Darwinism; indeed, John Holmes is to be commended for writing an exhilarating and genuinely interdisciplinary study with revealing insights on every page. -- iThe Thomas Hardy Journalr
Author Information
John Holmes is Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Late Victorian Sonnet-Sequence: Sexuality, Belief and the Self (Ashgate, 2005) and the editor of Science in Modern Poetry: New Directions (Liverpool University Press, 2012).
