What is it about?
This essay considers Romantic ideas of nature through a leading work of aesthetics (i.e. Wordsworth's Excursion (1814)) and a leading work of science (i.e. Whewell's Astronomy and General Physics (1833)). It then proceeds to trouble these concepts by juxtaposition with the labouring-class poetry of Clare and Bloomfield.
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Why is it important?
It reveals the legacy of Christianity on today's intrinsically middle-class ecological consciousness.
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This page is a summary of: The Moral Language of Nature, Romanticism, July 2015, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/rom.2015.0226.
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