100 YEARS AGO

摘要

Nature Knowledge in Modern Poetry— In this book the author deals in a very interesting manner with the many references to the aspects of nature in the poetical works of Tennyson, Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold, and Lowell... Interest in the insect world is shown to a greater extent by Tennyson, for he alludes to it frequently, and always with the accuracy which reveals great knowledge.., Tennyson's love of geology is apparent in the frequent references to it and the similes he gives, which clearly show he must have read a good deal on this as indeed on many other less popular subjects; for instance, he does not shun allusions to the nebular hypothesis, spectrum analysis, and astronomy.