By John Holmes
It is a finished learn of Darwin's Legacy for faith, ecology and the humanities. In Darwin's Bards John Holmes argues that poetry may have a profound effect on how we expect and think concerning the human situation in a Darwinian international. together with over 50 whole poems and mammoth extracts from numerous extra, Holmes indicates how poets from Tennyson and Browning, via Hardy and Frost, to Ted Hughes, Pattiann Rogers and Edwin Morgan have replied to the invention of evolution. Written for scientists, philosophers and ecologists, in addition to poets, critics and scholars of literature, Darwin's Bards is a well timed intervention into the heated debates over Darwin's legacy for faith, ecology and the humanities. The e-book will attract readers for its dialogue of the existential implications of Darwinism, for its shut readings of poetry, and for the reprinted poems themselves.
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