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Where Chap. 6 deals with astronomers, this chapter looks at poets like Chaucer, Donne, Davies, Wordsworth, Dryden, and Keats, and how the sky served to enrich their poetry almost as if they were all climbing a staircase into the night. While astronomy was progressing rapidly with the introduction of larger and better telescopes, these poets maintained the essential magic of the night sky.
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Levy, D.H. (2016). Leading up to Literature in the Victorian Age: Moving Toward Hopkins and Tennyson. In: The Starlight Night. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 419. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19878-1_7
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