“Tennyson was a champion of science, not an embodiment of the unjust (and probably nonexistent) stereotype of an affected, anti-technological, romantic poet.” — Stephen Jay Gould
Tennyson's poems, Science, and Technology: Themes and Contexts
- Tennyson, Darwin, and Evolution
- Tennyson and Evolution: Was he a proto-Darwinian or a proto-Gouldian?
- Reconciling the Spiritual and the Material in In Memoriam
- Introduction: Tennyson, Science and Religion
- “Ringing down the grooves of change:” Tennyson's mistaken railway analogy
- Review of Richard Holmes's The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief (2026)
Victorian science and scientists with particular relevance to Tennyson
- Charles Lyell (1797-1875), gentleman geologist
- Robert Chambers (1802-71) author/publisher & natural philosopher
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- William Paley and the argument from design
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