SOURCE: “The Scientific Muse: The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin,” in Languages of Nature: Critical Essays on Science and Literature, edited by L. J. Jordanova, Rutgers University Press, 1986, pp. 159-203.
In the following essay, McNeil explores the historical and cultural background against which Darwin endeavored to combine science and poetry.
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