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Explore the intersection of Victorian poetry, science, and philosophy through key works like Mill's 'On the Application of the Terms Poetry, Science, and Philosophy' and Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'. Delve into the cultural and emotional nuances of this era's poetic expression, examining the impact of scientific advancements on poetic thought and expression.

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  1. Science EN227 ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN POETRY 2017–2018

  2. John Stuart Mill ‘On the Application of the Terms Poetry, Science, and Philosophy’ (1834)

  3. Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859)

  4. The like the shriek of all a ravished land, “O Europe, Europe, Europe, Europe, Europe!” And then like the world’s trumpet blown to war, “The North, the North, the North, the North, the North!” Ah! ah! ah! Ah! ah! ah! ah! ah! ah! ah! ah! ah! ah! —Sydney Dobell, Balder (1853)

  5. Jason Rudy, Electric Meters: Victorian Physiological Poetics Kirstie Blair, Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart

  6. When Science reaches forth her arms To feel from world to world, and charms Her secret from the latest moon. (21)

  7. Charles Lyell Principles of Geology (1830-33)

  8. The moanings of the homeless sea, The sound of streams that swift or slow Draw down Aeonian hills, and sow The dust of continents to be. (35)

  9. I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle’s wing, or insect’s eye; Nor thro’ the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun: If e’er when faith had fall’n asleep, I heard a voice ‘believe no more’ And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason’s colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer’d ‘I have felt.’ (124)

  10. Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals Liable to Vivisection (the National Anti-Vivisection Society) Established by Frances Power Cobbe

  11. Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing, Nor cricket chirping cheerily, Nor grasshopper so light of leap, Nor dancing gnat, nor beetle fat, Nor harmless worms that creep.

  12. Christina Rossetti Seek and Find: A Double Series of Short Studies of the Benedicite(1879)

  13. As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;  As tumbled over rim in roundy wells  Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's  Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;  Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:  Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;  Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,  Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came.

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