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

Tom Owens's research interests lie predominantly in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature. His first book, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and ‘the language of the heavens’ (OUP, 2019) explored some of the exultant visions inspired by William Wordsworth’s and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s analogical imaginations. It examined the scientific patterns that the poets discovered in the world as they came to understand consciousness and cognition through highly self-conscious acts of invention, and includes chapters on: geometry and cartography; nature (representations of the Moon) and natural history...