Birdsong, Speech and Poetry: The Art of Composition in the Long Nineteenth Century Mackenney Francesca
Birdsong, Speech and Poetry: The Art of Composition in the Long Nineteenth Century Mackenney Francesca In the long nineteenth century, scientists discovered striking similarities between how birds…
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Birdsong, Speech and Poetry: The Art of Composition in the Long Nineteenth Century Mackenney Francesca
In the long nineteenth century, scientists discovered striking similarities between how birds learn to sing and how children learn to speak. With a particular focus on the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Wordsworth siblings, John Clare and Thomas Hardy, her book explores how poets responded to an analogy which challenged definitions of language and therefore of what it means to be human. Tracing the 'science of birdsong' as it developed from the 'ingenious' experiments of Daines Barrington to the evolutionary arguments of Charles Darwin, Francesca Mackenney reveals a legacy of thought which informs, and consequently affords fresh insights into, a canonical group of poems about birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods.
Drawing together responses to birdsong in science, music and poetry, her distinctive interdisciplinary approach challenges many of the long-standing
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