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03255aam a2200421 i 4500 001 E22DA450E97711ED8437380758ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230503010033 008 220513t20232023enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022012583 020 $a 1009074687 020 $a 9781009074681 020 $a 1316513718 020 $a 9781316513712 035 $a (OCoLC)1317751041 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d TXHLS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR585 L3 M33 2023 084 $a LIT004120 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Mackenney, Francesca, $e author. 245 10 $a Birdsong, speech and poetry : $b the art of composition in the long nineteenth century / $c Francesca Mackenney, University of Leeds. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2023. 300 $a x, 236 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "In the long nineteenth century, scientists revealed striking similarities between how birds learn to sing and how children learn to speak. This book explores how poets in this period responded to an analogy which challenged established definitions of language and, consequently, of what it means to be human. Tracing the 'science of birdsong' as it developed from the ingenious experiments of Daines Barrington to the evolutionary arguments of Charles Darwin, the first two chapters reveal a legacy of thought which informs, and consequently affords fresh insights into, a canonical group of poems about birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods. Focusing especially on the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Wordsworth siblings, John Clare and Thomas Hardy, the remaining chapters explore how these writers used birdsong as an analogy through which to explore the faculty of language: how language is learned and how it may have evolved, and what this may further tell us about how poets compose. Drawing together responses to birdsong in science, music and poetry, this interdisciplinary approach examines and tests many of the deep-rooted assumptions which have shaped (and continue to shape) how we respond to the sounds and songs of other creatures in the Anthropocene"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Introduction -- 1. The Science of Birdsong: 1773-1871 -- 2. The Science of Language: 1755-1873 -- 3. 'Prelusive Notes': Coleridge and the Wordsworths -- 4. 'Undersong': John Clare -- 5. 'We Teach 'Em Airs That Way': Thomas Hardy -- Conclusion. 650 0 $a English poetry $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Language and languages in literature. 650 0 $a Birdsongs. 650 0 $a Literature and science $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Mackenney, Francesca. $t Birdsong, speech and poetry $d Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 $z 9781009075909 $w (DLC) 2022012584 830 0 $a Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230907011558.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E22DA450E97711ED8437380758ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search