Wordsworth, Coleridge, and 'the language of the heavens'

Thomas Owens explores some of the exultant visions inspired by Wordsworth''s and Coleridge''s close scrutiny of the night sky, the natural world, and the domains of science. He examines a set of scientific patterns drawn from natural, geometric, celestial, and astronomical sources which Wordsworth and Coleridge used to express their ideas about poetry, religion, literary criticism, and philosophy,...