Comments on: Darwin: A Life in Poems http://www.darwinendlessforms.org Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:42:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Margaret http://www.darwinendlessforms.org/get-involved-online/book-club/darwin-a-life-in-poems/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Margaret Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:26:23 +0000 http://www.darwinendlessforms.org/?page_id=1731#comment-82 This is a terrific Biography of Darwin's life by Ruth Padel, his 2xgreat grandaughter. Her excellent poems distill his life, giving a wonderful feel for his scientific work and the conflict he had between that and his religious beliefs and those of his wife. Padel gets right to the heart of every aspect of his life, including his ill health and deaths of his children. Two poems of note are "Lavender Light in a Leap Year" and "Notebook B - He finds his own Definition of Grandeur". This is a terrific Biography of Darwin’s life by Ruth Padel, his 2xgreat grandaughter. Her excellent poems distill his life, giving a wonderful feel for his scientific work and the conflict he had between that and his religious beliefs and those of his wife. Padel gets right to the heart of every aspect of his life, including his ill health and deaths of his children. Two poems of note are “Lavender Light in a Leap Year” and “Notebook B – He finds his own Definition of Grandeur”.

]]> By: Rachel http://www.darwinendlessforms.org/get-involved-online/book-club/darwin-a-life-in-poems/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Rachel Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:48:03 +0000 http://www.darwinendlessforms.org/?page_id=1731#comment-49 I was surprised by how much I enjoyed reading this, by how much detail of Darwin's life was conveyed in the poems. My favourite, in terms of the impact Darwin's discoveries had on the spirit of the age, was Notebook M. The final two lines summed up for me that feeling of almost catestrophic realisation:- "Once you have granted on species may changed to another, the whole fabric totters and falls.' " I was surprised by how much I enjoyed reading this, by how much detail of Darwin’s life was conveyed in the poems. My favourite, in terms of the impact Darwin’s discoveries had on the spirit of the age, was Notebook M. The final two lines summed up for me that feeling of almost catestrophic realisation:-

“Once you have granted on species may changed
to another, the whole fabric totters and falls.’ “

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