Charles Darwin

She dedicated it on 24 July To the late Charles Darwin , Esq. . . . by one who was honoured with his friendship, and to whom his works have ever been a source of...

RP published a poetry volume entitled Darwin : A Life in Poems.

Augustin Pyramus de Candolle was a brilliant taxonomist who also envisioned plants as competing with each other for space and resources: a concept which influenced Charles Darwin ). In summer this same year JL had...

RP joined with five other poets in Machinery of Grace. A Tribute to Michael Donaghy (1954-2004), published by the Poetry Society in 2005. That same year she read some of her poems for the...

The contents are divided thematically as Songs of the Inner Life, Spring Songs, and Romantic Ballads. One of those poems, the lyric Melancholia, was inspired an Albrecht Dürer engraving.

The poems in Key-Notes are philosophical in nature, extensively discussing the origins of the universe, and of the Earth in particular, and Darwinian evolution. Eijun Senaha argues that they also reflect Emerson 's transcendentalism.

Among the essays, The Feminine Animal starts from Darwin 's law of evolution, which O'Brien takes to be in some sense proved. She scans the findings of science for their non-literal interpretation, and finds...

Theodora is clever, rich (and destined to lose her fortune if she marries), and understood to be peculiar or extraordinary; her admirer Cecil contrasts her to the conventional opening-primrose type of woman for having a...

Rachel, a paleontologist in her seventies (a curator at the Natural History Museum in South Kensington), is faced by her own intellectual shift away from the Darwin inian gradualism which she has always believed...

HJ travelled in England and Europe. While in England he introduced himself to some of the most important writers of the day, including George Eliot , George Henry Lewes , and Charles Darwin .