Over the last thirty years, more and more critics and scholars have come to recognize the importance of science to literature. 'Science in Modern Poetry: New Directions' is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on what poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have made of the scientific developments going on around them. In a collection of twelve essays, leading experts on modern poetry and on literature and science explore how poets have used scientific language in their poems, how poetry can offer new perspectives on science, and how the 'Two Cultures' can and have co.;Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Science and Contemporary Poetry: Cross-Cultural Soundings; 1 The Function of Antagonism: Miroslav Holub and Roald Hoffmann; 2 Cutting and Pasting: Language Writing and Molecular Biology; 3 The Poetics of Consilience: Edward O. Wilson and A.R. Ammons; 4 Poetry, Science and the Contemporary University; Part II. Science in Modernist Poetry: Appropriations and Interrogations; 5 'Strange Synthetic Perfumes': Investigating Scientific Diction in Twentieth-Century Poetry.
