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Erasmus Darwin
1731-1802
English naturalist and physician whose wide range of scientific interests established him as the leader of the Lunar Society, an association that included some of the most imp...
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Darwin, Erasmus(1731–1802)
Erasmus Darwin, an English physician, man of science, and poet, was the grandfather of Charles Darwin, whose evolutionary views he partly anticipated, and of Francis ...
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The grandfather of evolutionist Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) was a prominent English physician and poet whose interests included biology, botany, and technology.Darwin was born December ...
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Erasmus Darwin was an English physician who had a significant influence on the development of theories of evolution. In particular, he helped to initiate the idea that traits developed by an organism ...
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For the first fifty-seven years of his life Erasmus Darwin worked hard as a physician in the Midland counties of England and earned the highest reputation as a doctor. He was also an ingenious experim...
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In the following essay, Logan discusses at length Darwin's poetic merits, considering first the poet's occasional verse and continuing on through Darwin's three major works of poe...
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In the following essay, delivered at the Wordsworth Summer Conference in the U.K. in 1993, King-Hele argues that Darwin's poetic style and scientific convictions significantly influenced the wo...
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In the following excerpt, Reed examines the essence and impact of Darwin's contribution to the alternative psychological theory referred to as fluid materialism—a belief that the human m...
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In the following essay, King-Hele offers an assessment of The Temple of Nature, and states that the poem is evidence that Darwin, although a minor poet, deserves to hold a distinguished place among hi...
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In the following essay, Harrison focuses on Darwin's emerging ideas on the evolutionary process.
Every historian of evolutionary ideas dutifully acknowledges Erasmus Darwin's distinguish...
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In the following essay, Hassler argues that the major literary figures of the Romantic movement—Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge, Keats, and Byron—were influenced considerably by Darwin&#x...
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In the following excerpt, Bush considers the effect of Darwin's poetical interpretation of the ideas contained in Linnaeus' Sexual System on the pioneering botanical engravings in Dr. Ro...
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In the following essay, King-Hele argues that Darwin's scientific, religious, and political ideas, as revealed in his poetry, strongly influenced the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley....
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In the following excerpt, King-Hele provides a brief overview of Darwin's works.
… It is in biology, however, that Darwin is best known as a scientist, for his ideas on biological evolut...
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In the following essay, McNeil explores the historical and cultural background against which Darwin endeavored to combine science and poetry.
The second half of the eighteenth century witnessed a flou...
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In the following essay, McNeil contends that as Darwin celebrated the industrial and scientific advances of the late eighteenth century, he also expressed in his poetry an overall sense of optimism re...
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Erasmus Darwin
Darwin, Erasmus (1731–1802)
Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus Darwin
Critical Essay by James Venable Logan
