Darwin in 1881 Summary
Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Darwin in 1881 Summary

Gjertrud Schnackenberg published "Darwin in 1881" in her first collection of poems, Portraits and Elegies, in 1982. This book—sometimes referred to as a "chapbook" because of its short length—is divided into three sections, and "Darwin in 1881" makes up the entire second section. All three parts relate in one way or another to history, the first consisting of a series of elegies to her father, the third tracing the history of a Massachusetts farmhouse...

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