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Robert Browning (1812-89) Browning parodied in Punch magazine Like Tennyson, Browning may not be the last of the Romantic poets, but he is alone among the early Victorians in his appreciation of  the...

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is the Romantic poet most often described as a “nature” writer; what the word “nature” meant to Wordsworth is, however, a complex issue. On the one hand, Wordsworth was...

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Why a “Romantic” Natural History?

“Nature’s vast frame, the web of human things, Birth and the Grave, that are not as they were” (Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Alastor”, 1816: ll. 719-20) We often assume that Charles Darwin announced a new...

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Amphibious Thinking The Anxiety of Species: Toward a Romantic Natural History Defining “Life”and “Death” Global Exploration and New Forms of Nature Erasmus Darwin and the Frankenstein Mistake...

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