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First edition, first printing. Hard cover, 8vo., in black cloth, the titles in gold to the spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket, 418 pp.** CONDITION: Fine, like new, in a Fine d/j. Now in mylar. ** Author Renée Bergland, Simmons University professor of literature and creative writing, explores the philosophical kinship and influence of the works of two of the most creative thinkers of the mid19th-century, Amherst, Massachusetts poet Emily Dickinson and English scientist Charles Darwin. Both were fascinated by the mysteries of nature and both tried to decode it, Darwin using science, and Dickinson with her verse. From the blurb: "Just as Darwin's work was informed by his roots in natural philosophy and his belief in the interconnectedness of all life, Dickinson's poetry was shaped by her education in botany, astronomy, and chemistry, and by her fascination with the enchanting possibilities of Darwinian science." See review WSJ 6/25/24.
Ref: NATH 9191
$37.00