Wordsworth, Coleridge, and 'The Language of the Heavens'

by Thomas Owens

Thomas Owens explores some of the exultant visions inspired by Wordsworth's and Coleridge's close scrutiny of the night sky, the natural world, and the domains of science. He examines a set of scientific patterns drawn from natural, geometric, celestial, and astronomical sources which Wordsworth and Coleridge used to express their ideas about poetry, religion, literary criticism, and philosophy, and establishes the central importance of analogy in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198840861
• ISBN13: 9780198840862
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"