Examination of the links between science and literary history is
providing new insight for scholars across a range of disciplines.
In Wordsworth and the Geologists, first published in 1995, John
Wyatt explores the relationship between a major Romantic poet and a
group of scientists in the formative years of a new discipline,
geology. Wordsworth's later poems and prose display unexpected
knowledge of contemporary geology and a preoccupation with many of
the philosophical issues concerned with the developing science of
geology. Letters and diaries of a group of leading geologists
reveal that they knew Wordsworth, and discussed their subject with
him. Wyatt shows how the implications of such discussions challenge
the simplistic version of 'two cultures', the Romantic-literary
against the scientific-materialistic; and he reminds us of the
variety of interrelating discourses current between 1807 (the year
of the foundation of the Geological Society of London) and 1850
(the year of Wordsworth's death).
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