Abstract
No nature poem written during the 1790s was more controversial or more radical in defining what nature is in the modern world than Erasmus Darwin's Botanic Garden . By examining this poem and Henry Jones's "Kew Garden," this paper argues that to understand the Romantic period, we need to consider not only the rooted, unchanging, nativist nature that we have come to associate with Wordsworth, but also those new, dynamic, changing, heterogeneous, traveling, immigrant natures, which begin increasingly to appear during the eighteenth century. These modern natures, shaped by globalization, commerce, and consumerism, find their most powerful poetic voice in Darwin.
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