John Holmes is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Reading, and the author of 'Darwin's Bards: British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution' (Edinburgh University Press, 2009).

This collection of essays genuinely offers new directions for the study of science in modern poetry. It is coherently organised, full of matter, often fascinating, and always thought-provoking.Dame Gillian Beer, University of Cambridge

• List of Contributors AcknowledgementsIntroduction - John HolmesPart I. Science and Contemporary Poetry: Cross-Cultural Soundings1. The Function of Antagonism: Miroslav Holub and Roald Hoffmann - Helen Smal 2. Cutting and Pasting: Language Writing and Molecular Biology - Peter Middleton 3. The Poetics of Consilience: Edward O. Wilson and A. R. Ammons - John Barnie 4. Poetry, Science and the Contemporary University - Robert CrawfordPart II. Science in Modernist Poetry: Appropriations and Interrogations 5. 'Strange Synthetic Perfumes': Investigating Scientific Diction in Twentieth-Century Poetry - Michael H. Whitworth 6. The Human Animal: Biological Tropes in Interwar Poetry - Tim Armstrong 7. William Empson, Ants and Aliens - Katy Price 8. Ezra Pound and the Materiality of the Fourth Dimension - Ian F. A. BellPart III. Darwinian Dialogues: Four Modern Poets 9. 'Accidental Variations': Darwinian Traces in Yeats's Poetry - Roman McDonald 10. Making the Past Wake: Anthropological Survivals in Hardy's Poetry - Andrew Radford 11. Reading Bishop Reading Darwim - Jonathan Ellis 12. From Bergson to Darwin: Evolutionary Biology in the Poetry of Judith Wright - John HolmesAfterword - Bruce ClarkeBibliographyIndex 1. Poets 2. Scientists and Scientific disciplines 3. Other references

John Holmes is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Reading, and the author of 'Darwin's Bards: British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution' (Edinburgh University Press, 2009).

This collection of essays genuinely offers new directions for the study of science in modern poetry. It is coherently organised, full of matter, often fascinating, and always thought-provoking.Dame Gillian Beer, University of Cambridge

• List of Contributors AcknowledgementsIntroduction - John HolmesPart I. Science and Contemporary Poetry: Cross-Cultural Soundings1. The Function of Antagonism: Miroslav Holub and Roald Hoffmann - Helen Smal 2. Cutting and Pasting: Language Writing and Molecular Biology - Peter Middleton 3. The Poetics of Consilience: Edward O. Wilson and A. R. Ammons - John Barnie 4. Poetry, Science and the Contemporary University - Robert CrawfordPart II. Science in Modernist Poetry: Appropriations and Interrogations 5. 'Strange Synthetic Perfumes': Investigating Scientific Diction in Twentieth-Century Poetry - Michael H. Whitworth 6. The Human Animal: Biological Tropes in Interwar Poetry - Tim Armstrong 7. William Empson, Ants and Aliens - Katy Price 8. Ezra Pound and the Materiality of the Fourth Dimension - Ian F. A. BellPart III. Darwinian Dialogues: Four Modern Poets 9. 'Accidental Variations': Darwinian Traces in Yeats's Poetry - Roman McDonald 10. Making the Past Wake: Anthropological Survivals in Hardy's Poetry - Andrew Radford 11. Reading Bishop Reading Darwim - Jonathan Ellis 12. From Bergson to Darwin: Evolutionary Biology in the Poetry of Judith Wright - John HolmesAfterword - Bruce ClarkeBibliographyIndex 1. Poets 2. Scientists and Scientific disciplines 3. Other references

John Holmes is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Reading, and the author of 'Darwin's Bards: British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution' (Edinburgh University Press, 2009).

This collection of essays genuinely offers new directions for the study of science in modern poetry. It is coherently organised, full of matter, often fascinating, and always thought-provoking.Dame Gillian Beer, University of Cambridge

• List of Contributors AcknowledgementsIntroduction - John HolmesPart I. Science and Contemporary Poetry: Cross-Cultural Soundings1. The Function of Antagonism: Miroslav Holub and Roald Hoffmann - Helen Smal 2. Cutting and Pasting: Language Writing and Molecular Biology - Peter Middleton 3. The Poetics of Consilience: Edward O. Wilson and A. R. Ammons - John Barnie 4. Poetry, Science and the Contemporary University - Robert CrawfordPart II. Science in Modernist Poetry: Appropriations and Interrogations 5. 'Strange Synthetic Perfumes': Investigating Scientific Diction in Twentieth-Century Poetry - Michael H. Whitworth 6. The Human Animal: Biological Tropes in Interwar Poetry - Tim Armstrong 7. William Empson, Ants and Aliens - Katy Price 8. Ezra Pound and the Materiality of the Fourth Dimension - Ian F. A. BellPart III. Darwinian Dialogues: Four Modern Poets 9. 'Accidental Variations': Darwinian Traces in Yeats's Poetry - Roman McDonald 10. Making the Past Wake: Anthropological Survivals in Hardy's Poetry - Andrew Radford 11. Reading Bishop Reading Darwim - Jonathan Ellis 12. From Bergson to Darwin: Evolutionary Biology in the Poetry of Judith Wright - John HolmesAfterword - Bruce ClarkeBibliographyIndex 1. Poets 2. Scientists and Scientific disciplines 3. Other references