Wordsworth and the Geologists

by John Wyatt

Book Overview

Examination of the links between science and literary history is providing new insight for scholars across a range of disciplines. In Wordsworth and the Geologists, first published in 1995, John Wyatt explores the relationship between a major Romantic poet and a group of scientists in the formative years of a new discipline, geology. Wordsworth's later poems and prose display unexpected knowledge of contemporary geology and a preoccupation with many...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521020905
• ISBN13: 9780521020909
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"