The Botanic Garden
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The Botanic Garden is an 18th-century didactic poem by Erasmus Darwin that blends poetic descriptions of plants with early evolutionary ideas and Enlightenment science.
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| The Botanic Garden by Erasmus Darwin | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
didactic poem
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poem ⓘ |
| addresses |
environmental transformation by industry
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global trade and empire ⓘ human progress ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Lunar Society of Birmingham ⓘ |
| author | Erasmus Darwin ⓘ |
| contains |
The Economy of Vegetation
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The Loves of the Plants ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Great Britain ⓘ |
| explores |
cosmology
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geology ⓘ mechanical inventions ⓘ meteorology ⓘ |
| firstPartPublicationDate | 1789 ⓘ |
| form | verse ⓘ |
| genre |
didactic poetry
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scientific poetry ⓘ |
| hasParatext |
extensive scientific footnotes
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prose commentaries ⓘ |
| historicalContext | pre-Romantic British literature ⓘ |
| influenced |
Romantic poets
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early evolutionary thought ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Carl Linnaeus
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Enlightenment natural philosophy ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryInfluenceOn |
Mary Shelley
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Percy Bysshe Shelley ⓘ Romantic-era scientific poetry ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | heroic couplets ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Enlightenment science
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botany ⓘ early evolutionary ideas ⓘ natural history ⓘ technology and invention ⓘ |
| movement | Enlightenment literature ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| portrays | plants as social and sexual beings ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1791 ⓘ |
| publisher | J. Johnson ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Phytologia
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Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life ⓘ
surface form:
Zoonomia
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| secondPartPublicationDate | 1791 ⓘ |
| subject |
Linnaean botany
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industrial progress ⓘ scientific discovery ⓘ |
| uses | personification of plants ⓘ |
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The Botanic Garden by Erasmus Darwin