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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Reweaving the Rainbow: Science in Romantic Poetry
Abstract
dc:descriptionContrary to popular belief, the Romantic poets were not anti-scientific thinkers. Their poems, both major and minor, are heavily infused with the scientific knowledge of the period, a time marked by monumental advances in British chemistry and geology. Though they all asserted at times that there is a danger in a cold, scientific perspective on nature and on human life, they grounded both their nature poetry and their visionary poetry in terms of atoms, ether, and stratigraphy.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Prescott, Robert Allen
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Stillinger, Jack
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8823228
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69473