Abstract
THE prediction of Wordsworth a hundred years ago seems to be coming true. There is more and more fine verse directly and avowedly inspired by science. We have noticed in these columns more than once the trilogy of Mr. Alfred Noyes on the growth of science, the Torch Bearers in their triple aspect towards the heavens, the earth, and suffering man. The works now before us by Sir Ronald Ross and Prof. Julian Huxley have the added and special interest of being poems by men of science themselves. They are alike in this and in being good: all of them are well worth printing and many of them deserve to live. But in other respects the two poets are in marked contrast.
(1) The Captive Shrew: and other Poems of a Biologist.
By Julian S. Huxley. Pp. xii + 101. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1932.) 5s. net.
(2) Lyra Modulata.
By Sir Ronald Ross. Pp. 21. (London: Harrison and Sons, Ltd., 1931.) 10s. 6d.
(3) In Exile.
By Sir Ronald Ross. Third edition. Pp. xii + 80. (London: Harrison and Sons, Ltd., 1931.) 10s. 6d.
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M., F. (1) The Captive Shrew: and other Poems of a Biologist (2) Lyra Modulata (3) In Exile. Nature 130, 41–42 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130041a0
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