Wordsworth and Science

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Jun 1944

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Nature, Volume 153, Issue 3893, pp. 716 (1944).

Physics

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THE important question is surely not whether Wordsworth should now and again have scoffed at men of science with or without provocation, but whether the poems as a whole suggest that he felt at heart that it were incumbent upon poets to give recognition to scientific knowledge. Now I submit and, indeed, tried to show in an article published in NATURE of November 28, 1942, that the very strength of Wordsworth's unique Nature mysticism depends on the tacit acceptance of science in principle discernible in the poems. This must be precisely why the forerunners of this journal so wisely selected a now time-honoured Wordsworthian motto, and why ever to discard it would be a most foolish blunder.

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