Science in Modern Poetry
John Holmes (Ed.)
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Description for Science in Modern Poetry
Hardback. Leading experts on modern poetry and on literature and science explore how poets have used scientific language in their poems, how poetry can offer new perspectives on science, and how the 'Two Cultures' can and have come together in the work of poets from Britain and Ireland, America and Australia. Editor(s): Holmes, John. Series: Poetry &.. Num Pages: 248 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSC; PD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 576.
Over the last thirty years, more and more critics and scholars have come to recognize the importance of science to literature. 'Science in Modern Poetry: New Directions' is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on what poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have made of the scientific developments going on around them. In a collection of twelve essays, leading experts on modern poetry and on literature and science explore how poets have used scientific language in their poems, how poetry can offer new perspectives on science, and how the 'Two Cultures' can and have come together in ... Read more
Over the last thirty years, more and more critics and scholars have come to recognize the importance of science to literature. 'Science in Modern Poetry: New Directions' is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on what poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have made of the scientific developments going on around them. In a collection of twelve essays, leading experts on modern poetry and on literature and science explore how poets have used scientific language in their poems, how poetry can offer new perspectives on science, and how the 'Two Cultures' can and have come together in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Poetry &...
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846318092
SKU
V9781846318092
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99-50
About John Holmes (Ed.)
John Holmes is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Reading, and the author of 'Darwin's Bards: British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution' (Edinburgh University Press, 2009).
Reviews for Science in Modern Poetry
There is strong work here.
Times Literary Supplement
An inspiring record of current research that points towards many potential directions for future work.
Modernism/modernity, Volume 20, Number 1
This collection of essays genuinely offers new directions for the study of science in modern poetry. It is coherently organised, full of matter, often fascinating, and always thought-provoking. ... Read more
Times Literary Supplement
An inspiring record of current research that points towards many potential directions for future work.
Modernism/modernity, Volume 20, Number 1
This collection of essays genuinely offers new directions for the study of science in modern poetry. It is coherently organised, full of matter, often fascinating, and always thought-provoking. ... Read more