Wordsworth Circle, June 22nd, 2002
The social and intellectual circle gathered around the publisher Joseph Johnson, including poets and chemists, botanists and engravers, novelists and medical writers, stands as a potent counter-example to any "two cultures" view of Romantic-era discourse--or daily life. Scientific writing in the 1790s was neither recondite nor highly specialized. Scientists wrote in a "common language," to quote Marilyn Gaull's salutary essay "Coleridge and the Kingdoms of This World." They wrote, moreover, about matters of wide intellectual and popular interest--"earth, air, stars, bodies"--approaching these ...
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