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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... century before : Alexander Smith , for example , had discerned in Glasgow Another beauty , sad and stern.49 Now such an attitude at such a time to such a thing was rare , but not unique ; for the distinctions between the beautiful and ...
... century before : Alexander Smith , for example , had discerned in Glasgow Another beauty , sad and stern.49 Now such an attitude at such a time to such a thing was rare , but not unique ; for the distinctions between the beautiful and ...
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... century that farther- fetched comparisons than these were used either aptly or often : As a man , caught by some ... century poet was less inclined to be ' witty ' or ' fanciful ' than his twentieth - century successor ; less inclined ...
... century that farther- fetched comparisons than these were used either aptly or often : As a man , caught by some ... century poet was less inclined to be ' witty ' or ' fanciful ' than his twentieth - century successor ; less inclined ...
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... Century , 1921 ( 1922 ) , pp . 1 f .: ' A revolution in ideas inevitably accompanied such far - reaching changes in the physical world . A new conception of personal liberty emerged and the mass of the population of Europe became free ...
... Century , 1921 ( 1922 ) , pp . 1 f .: ' A revolution in ideas inevitably accompanied such far - reaching changes in the physical world . A new conception of personal liberty emerged and the mass of the population of Europe became free ...
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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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