So that when landscape was no longer supported by Newtonian phys… — “Tennyson and Picturesque Poetry” (1955), in Essays in Criticism, Vol 1, No 3, July (1951), p 278, reprinted in The Interior Landscape The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, (1969), p 278

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So that when landscape was no longer supported by Newtonian physics for Coleridge and Keats, it was reinforced by botany, biology and geology for Tennyson, Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites. Science remained as an important prop for interests which were primarily aesthetic.

“Tennyson and Picturesque Poetry” (1955), in Essays in Criticism, Vol 1, No 3, July (1951), p 278, reprinted in The Interior Landscape The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, (1969), p 278

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Year: 1955

Chapter: Coleridge