{"title":"Moving Shadows: The Influence of John Keats on the Poetry of John Tyndall","authors":"N. Jackson","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2022.2075594","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay examines the possible influence of the poetry of John Keats on the poetry of John Tyndall. Tyndall’s work as a Victorian physicist is introduced, along with his lesser-known canon of poetry. Several areas are evaluated, including resonances to Keats’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, the use of Keatsian terminology, the moon as a cipher for romantic attraction, the meaning of landscape for the creative and scientific imagination, and the pantheistic sublime. The essay concludes that clear influences of Keats can be found shimmering through John Tyndall’s poetry, with his philosophy of scientific investigation reflecting, eventually, a form of negative capability.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"36 1","pages":"27 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2022.2075594","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"POETRY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This essay examines the possible influence of the poetry of John Keats on the poetry of John Tyndall. Tyndall’s work as a Victorian physicist is introduced, along with his lesser-known canon of poetry. Several areas are evaluated, including resonances to Keats’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, the use of Keatsian terminology, the moon as a cipher for romantic attraction, the meaning of landscape for the creative and scientific imagination, and the pantheistic sublime. The essay concludes that clear influences of Keats can be found shimmering through John Tyndall’s poetry, with his philosophy of scientific investigation reflecting, eventually, a form of negative capability.
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The Keats-Shelley Review has been published by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association for almost 100 years. It has a unique identity and broad appeal, embracing Romanticism, English Literature and Anglo-Italian relations. A diverse range of items are published within the Review, including notes, prize-winning essays and contemporary poetry of the highest quality, around a core of peer-reviewed academic articles, essays and reviews. The editor, Professor Nicholas Roe, along with the newly established editorial board, seeks to develop the depth and quality of the contributions, whilst retaining the Review’s distinctive and accessible nature.