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Carregando... Darwin: A Life in Poems (2009)de Ruth Padel
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"Charles Darwin lost his mother at the age of eight, repressed all memory of her, and poured his passion into newt collecting and shooting. As a young man, his five-year voyage on H.M.S. Beagle changed his life. Afterwards, working privately on groundbreaking theories about the development of species, he published his geological findings. He also made a nervous proposal to his cousin Emma." "They had a very happy marriage but both were painfully aware of the gulf between her deep Christian faith and his increasing religious doubt. The death of three of their ten children accentuated this gulf. For Darwin, death and extinction were nature's way of developing new species: the survival of the fittest. For Emma, death was a prelude to the afterlife." "In this sequence of poems, using multiple viewpoints - even, at one point, the orang-utang at London Zoo - Ruth Padel follows the development of Darwin's thought, the drama of the discovery of evolution, and fluctuating emotions in Darwin the husband, the naturalist and the tender father, in a powerful tribute to her famous forebear."--BOOK JACKET. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)821.914Literature English & Old English literatures English poetry 1900- 1900-1999 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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We can't know another person's life, no matter how thoroughly that life was recorded, no matter how minutely his or her biographer's have dissected it. These poems do not pretend to show every detail or the full scope. However, they pluck out the crucial moments, trace the threads of connection, and evoke the emotions the subject may have shared; they leave the reader with lasting impressions of having encountered Darwin, of understanding him better. What biographer could ask for more? ( )