Heterochrony in Evolution: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Book Overview

... an adult poet is simply an individual in a state of arrested development-in brief, a sort of moron. Just as all of us, in utero, pass through a stage in which we are tadpoles, ... so all of us pass through a state, in our nonage, when we are poets. A youth of seventeen who is not a poet is simply a donkey: his development has been arrested even anterior to that of the tadpole. But a man of fifty who still writes poetry is either an unfortunate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1489907971
• ISBN13: 9781489907974
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"