The Industrial Muse: The Industrial Revolution in English PoetryOxford University Press, 1958 - 174 էջ "Soon shall they arm, UNCONQUER'D STEAM! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear They flying-chariots through the fields of air. --Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move; Or warrior-bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud." These prophetic, if incongruous, lines of Erasmus Darwin's verse were published in 1792, when, as Mr. Warburg's stimulating anthology makes clear, the great mass of industrial data was already exerting that force of attraction which it has exerted on poets ever since. Of course, this was the beginning of a thermodynamic, and ours is the beginning of a thermonuclear age. But the human problems are still essentially the same. It is, for example, still customary to blame on the machine the evils which men do; to think rather in therms of limiting the boundaries of technical endeavor, than of extending the boundaries of man's humanity. It is with these and with many other aspects of our society -- both the boyd and soul of our industrial civilization -- that the poets represented in this anthology (poets such as Black, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Lawrence and Auden) were concerned. And, as Mr. Warburg concludes in the lively and informative introduction which is one of the many pleasures of the anthology. |
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... trees , And a bewildered glitter of loose road ; Banks of bright growth , with single blades atop Against white sky : and wires - a constant chain— That seem to draw the clouds along with them ( Things which one stoops against the light ...
... trees , And a bewildered glitter of loose road ; Banks of bright growth , with single blades atop Against white sky : and wires - a constant chain— That seem to draw the clouds along with them ( Things which one stoops against the light ...
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... trees move towards the bank as we go by , Leaving the water's surface plain . I now Lie back and close my eyes a space ; for they Smart from the open forwardness of thought Fronting the wind . * I did not scribble more , Be certain ...
... trees move towards the bank as we go by , Leaving the water's surface plain . I now Lie back and close my eyes a space ; for they Smart from the open forwardness of thought Fronting the wind . * I did not scribble more , Be certain ...
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... trees , stem behind stem Passing across each other as we pass : Sometimes tall poplar - wands stand white , their heads Outmeasuring the distant hills . Sometimes The ground has a deep greenness ; sometimes brown In stubble ; and ...
... trees , stem behind stem Passing across each other as we pass : Sometimes tall poplar - wands stand white , their heads Outmeasuring the distant hills . Sometimes The ground has a deep greenness ; sometimes brown In stubble ; and ...
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The Power of Steam Erasmus Darwin | 6 |
Steam at Sheffield Ebenezer Elliott | 17 |
A Spiritual Railway Anon | 28 |
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