Dec 28, 2009
The English Pupil | What Do I Read Next?
- Like Barrett's story, Gjertrud Schnackenberg's poem "Darwin in 1881," which can be found in her Supernatural Love: Poems 1976–1992 (2000), examines the mind of a great scientist as his life draws to a close. Also like the story, the poem interweaves past and present as Darwin looks back on his life. He does not view it with any sense of accomplishment.
- Barrett's novel Voyage of the Narwhal (1998) begins in May 1855, when the Narwhal sails from Philadelphia to the Arctic in search of a long-lost expedition. On board is the naturalist Erasmus Darwin...
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