Introduction: Science and Victorian poetry.(Editorial) From: Victorian Poetry | Date: March 22, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 West Virginia University Press, University of West Virginia. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

THE "PHILOSOPHICAL... CONTRADISTINCTION" BETWEEN "POETRY AND MATter of Fact, or Science" made by William Wordsworth in his famous 1802 "Preface" to the Lyrical Ballads has been enormously influential in discussions of the relations between science and Victorian poetry. (1) The understanding of this particular cultural interface was, for a very long time, dominated--and distorted--by a rigid and a historical contrast between abstract poetic idealism and empirical scientific positivism which, in its insistence on a sharp divide between the subjective and the objective, pitted the ...

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