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Subject: Re: goethe
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 18:50:51 +0000
Thank you!
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On Jul 7, 2018, at 11:23 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmasizin> wrote:
yes, i watched congragulations. I like seeing your dream in its digital manifestation
On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 11:18 AM, > wrote:
Dear Jeffrey,
So funny you should mention Goethe!
I was filming a few weeks ago with Ned Friedman, the director of the Arnold Arboretum, for my new course for teachers, the Poetry of
Earth, Sea and Sky, and he recited part of this poem to me while we were looking at and filming some trees. He and I discussed how
poetry and science in the 18th and 19th centuries were entirely complementary pursuits--people botanized and then wrote poems on their
specimens. and they held poets accountable to knowing of what they wrote. And yes, young women, with more leisure time, were
especially enlisted by naturalists in the 19th century to go out and make discoveries. Emily Dickinson was one such naturalist poet. .
Have you seen my television series? With which you helped me so much (as well as helping with the above!)
it is streaming on gparyinamtheasm
OR you can watch the old fashioned way on PBS World Channel tonight at 7:30 or tomorrow on WNET 13 at 12:30
184 stations around the country ended up airing Season 1 of the series, and we are now proceeding to plan, and fimdraise for, seasons 2-3.
I'm hoping that things settle down enough to use the Woody episode. I thought Moses's letter was very persuasive myself, but the world in
not subtle.
Love
On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 10:17 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
f nature.
Goethe embodied his belief that science and poetry, with their
corresponding conceptions of nature, are not incompatible but actu-
ally complementary. Th e poet-scientist, however, has often struggled
for a hearing in the modern Western world. Goethe was bewildered
by many of the responses his essay engendered among his circle of
friends and acquaintances. What was this new eff
ort supposed to be?
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Introduction
It seemed too scientifi
c for poetry, but perhaps also too poetic for sci-
ence. "Nowhere," he complained, "would anyone grant that science
and poetry can be united. People forgot that science had developed
from poetry and they failed to take into consideration that a swing of
the pendulum might benefi
cently reunite the two, at a higher level
and to mutual advantage."
14
Years later Goethe composed a poem also
titled 'Th e Metamorphosis of Plants" (which follows this Introduc-
tion) in an effort to make his scientifi
c theories and pursuits more
palatable and intelligible to his wife and women friends, though with
only limited success
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