Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Physical Sciences

Gregory Tate is a lecturer in Victorian literature at the University of St Andrews, and the author of The Poet’s Mind: The Psychology of Victorian Poetry 1830-1870 (2012).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Wordsworth, Humphry Davy, and the Forms of Nature.- 3. Quotation and the Rhetoric of Experiment.- 4. Words and Things in the Periodical Press.- 5. Tennyson’s Sounds.- 6. Mathilde Blind: Rhythm, Energy, and Revolution.- 7. Hardy’s Measures.

“The book’s historicist leanings manifest most strongly in its close attention to publication media and scientific institutions. … Tate’s monograph is impressively ambitious in scope … .” (Monique R. Morgan, Victorian Studies, Vol. 64 (3), 2022)