Jackson, R and Jackson, N and Brown, D (Eds).
(2020)
The Poetry of John Tyndall.
[Book].
UCL Press: London.
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John Tyndall (1822–1893) is best known as a leading natural philosopher and trenchant public intellectual of the Victorian age. He discovered the physical basis of the greenhouse effect, explained why the sky is blue, and spoke and wrote controversially on the relationship between science and religion. Few people were aware that he also wrote poetry. The Poetry of John Tyndall contains his 76 extant poems, the majority of which have not been transcribed or published before, and are succinctly annotated in a style similar to that used for the letters published in The Correspondence of John Tyndall. The poems are complemented by an extended introduction, which was written by the three editors together as a multidisciplinary analysis. The essay aims to facilitate readings by a range of people interested in the history of Victorian science and of Victorian science and literature. It explores what the poems can tell us about Tyndall’s self-fashioning, his values and beliefs, and the role of poetry for him and his circle. More broadly, the essay addresses the relationship between the scientific and poetic imaginations, and wider questions of the nature and purpose of poetry in relation to science and religion in the nineteenth century. ‘This volume is a welcome addition to the recent burst of scholarly interest in the Victorian physicist John Tyndall, popularizer of science, critic of Christian theology, key contributor to climate science, and avid mountain climber. Those interested in nineteenth-century history, literature, and science will be fascinated by the new insights to be found looking at Tyndall through his poems. Readers will also appreciate the superb scholarly apparatus accompanying the poems, including an informative introduction, helpful editorial notes, and a comprehensive bibliography.’ – Bernard V. Lightman, York University, Canada
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | The Poetry of John Tyndall |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-78735-910-9 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787359109 |
| Publisher version: | https://10.14324/111.9781787359109 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2020 Text © Contributors, 2020 The authors have asserted their rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the authors of this work. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library. This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Jackson, R., Jackson, N. and Brown, D. (eds). 2020. The Poetry of John Tyndall. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787359109 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creativecom mons.org/licenses/ Any third-party material in this book is published under the book’s Creative Commons licence unless indicated otherwise in the credit line to the material. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. |
| Keywords: | victorian poetry, victorian science, nineteenth century, John Tyndell |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Science and Technology Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10111975 |
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