Erasmus Darwin

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• [THE BOTANIC GARDEN. PART I. THE ECONOMY OF VEGETATION.] ()
• [THE BOTANIC GARDEN. PART II. THE LOVES OF THE PLANTS.] ()
• THE GOLDEN AGE, A POETICAL EPISTLE. ()

• Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802. The botanic garden: a poem, in two parts. Part I. Containing the economy of vegetation. Part II. The loves of the plants. With philosophical notes. London: printed for J. Johnson, 1791. xii,212,[1],212-214,126,[2]p.,plates ; 4⁰. (ESTC T82160; OTA K067205.000)
  • [THE BOTANIC GARDEN. PART I. THE ECONOMY OF VEGETATION.]
  • [THE BOTANIC GARDEN. PART II. THE LOVES OF THE PLANTS.]
• Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802. The golden age, a poetical epistle: from Erasmus D-n, M.D. to Thomas Beddoes, M.D. London: printed for F. and C. Rivington; and J. Cooke, Oxford, 1794. 15,[1]p. ; 4⁰. (ESTC N7154; OTA K004299.000)
  • THE GOLDEN AGE, A POETICAL EPISTLE.

Source editions

• Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802. The botanic garden: a poem, in two parts. Part I. Containing the economy of vegetation. Part II. The loves of the plants. With philosophical notes. London: printed for J. Johnson, 1791. xii,212,[1],212-214,126,[2]p.,plates ; 4⁰. (ESTC T82160; OTA K067205.000)
• Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802. The golden age, a poetical epistle: from Erasmus D-n, M.D. to Thomas Beddoes, M.D. London: printed for F. and C. Rivington; and J. Cooke, Oxford, 1794. 15,[1]p. ; 4⁰. (ESTC N7154; OTA K004299.000)

Bibliography

ODNB 7177

Reference works

• Radcliffe, David H., ed. Dr. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802). Spenser and the Tradition: ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830. Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2006. Web. 7 Jan. 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20170908014740/http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord.php?recordid=33137.

Criticism

• Connolly, Tristanne. Flowery porn: form and desire in Erasmus Darwin's The Loves of the Plants. Literature Compass 13(10) (2016): 604-616. Print.
• Elliott, Paul A. Erasmus Darwin's gardens: medicine, agriculture and the Enlightenment sciences. Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2021. Print.
• Faubert, Michelle. Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Beddoes, and The Golden Age of the 1790s. European Romantic Review 22(4) (2011): 453-476. Print.
• Fulford, Tim. Metaphysics in the Beddoes circle: Tom Wedgwood, S. T. Coleridge, Erasmus Darwin, Humphry Davy. Essays in Romanticism 29(1) (2022): 89-113. Print.
• Hassler, David M. The disease of the learned: Erasmus Darwin and sensibility. Enlightenment Essays (1972): 113-119. Print.
• Jackson, Noel. Rhyme and reason: Erasmus Darwin's Romanticism. Modern Language Quarterly 70(2) (2009): 171-194. Print.
• King-Hele, Desmond. Erasmus Darwin and the Romantic poets. London: Macmillan, 1986. Print.
• Powell, Rosalind. Linnaeus, analogy, and taxonomy: botanical naming and categorization in Erasmus Darwin and Charlotte Smith. Philological Quarterly 95(1) (2016): 101-124. Print.
• Priestman, Martin. The poetry of Erasmus Darwin: enlightened spaces, Romantic times. Farnham; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Print.
• Robertson, Lisa Ann. 'Kindred forms': Erasmus Darwin's posthuman ethics of relationality. European Romantic Review 32(5/6) (2021): 551-566. Print.
• Southall, Raymond. Botany into poetry: Erasmus Darwin, Coleridge & Wordsworth. English Language Notes (1995): 20-22. Print.
• Wu, Ya-Feng. Blake's critique of Erasmus Darwin's Botanic Garden. Wordsworth Circle 50(1) (2019): 55-73. Print.