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29 - English Language and Literature
Roehampton University
The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times
The first comprehensive study of Darwin’s poetry involved:
• 230,000-words and 5 years’ work to explain the many thousands of lines of Darwin’s densely-annotated scientific poems touching on almost all aspects of Enlightenment knowledge
• the first-ever printing of a substantial new Darwin poem (5,000 words), edited from barely-legible MS in the Darwin Archive, Cambridge
• first full consideration of Darwin’s complex classical/hermetic interests, ranging from Egyptian hieroglyphics to Greek art and Rosicrucianism
• absorbing the arguments of over 100 previous studies
• establishing many new connections between Darwin and his contemporaries, including a range of significant female writers and all the major Romantic poets.
