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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... eyes Whatso they seek ; and because all the things Which on our outset were distinct and large Are smaller and much ... eye Scans for their growth , are far along in haze . The sky has lost its clouds , and lies away Oppressively at calm ...
... eyes Whatso they seek ; and because all the things Which on our outset were distinct and large Are smaller and much ... eye Scans for their growth , are far along in haze . The sky has lost its clouds , and lies away Oppressively at calm ...
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... eye And shimmer in upon the soul ; but chief , There came the wonder of the Waters , sounds Of sunny tides that wash on silver sands , Or cries of waves that anguish'd and went white Under the eyes of lightnings . ' Twas a bliss Beyond ...
... eye And shimmer in upon the soul ; but chief , There came the wonder of the Waters , sounds Of sunny tides that wash on silver sands , Or cries of waves that anguish'd and went white Under the eyes of lightnings . ' Twas a bliss Beyond ...
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... eyes Glares the imperious mystery of the way . Thirsty for dark , you feel the long - limbed train Throb , stretch , thrill motion , slide , pull out and sway , Strain for the far , pause , draw to strength again . . . . As a man ...
... eyes Glares the imperious mystery of the way . Thirsty for dark , you feel the long - limbed train Throb , stretch , thrill motion , slide , pull out and sway , Strain for the far , pause , draw to strength again . . . . As a man ...
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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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The Industrial Muse: The Industrial Revolution in English Poetry Jeremy Warburg Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 1958 |
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