Charles Morris Lansley, Charles Darwin’s Debt to the Romantics: How Alexander von Humboldt, Goethe and Wordsworth Helped Shape Darwin’s View of Nature

Daniel Vázquez Calvo

Charles Morris Lansley, Charles Darwin’s Debt to the Romantics: How Alexander von Humboldt, Goethe and Wordsworth Helped Shape Darwin’s View of Nature

Authors

Daniel Vázquez Calvo Complutense University of Madrid

Keywords:

Charles Morris Lansley, Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin, Evolution, Romantic, William Wordsworth, Subjectivity, Empiricism, Science, Inheritance, Legacies, Ruth Padel

Abstract

Review by Daniel Vázquez Calvo (Complutense University of Madrid) of Charles Morris Lansley, Charles Darwin’s Debt to the Romantics: How Alexander von Humboldt, Goethe and Wordsworth Helped Shape Darwin’s View of Nature. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018. Pp. 274. £60. ISBN: 9781787071384.