This author wrote a poem predicting that "the homeless planet at length will be wheel'd thro' the silence of space /
This author wrote a poem predicting that "the homeless planet at length will be wheel'd thro' the silence of space / Motherless evermore of an ever-vanishing race." Philosophers of science often quote his lyric telling a flower that, "if I could understand / What you are, root and all, and all in all, / I should know what God and man is." This poet's impressions taking the train from Liverpool to Manchester for the first time inspired his lines "Forward, forward let us range, / Let the (*) great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change." The uniformitarianism advocated by Charles Lyell influenced a fifteen-line sonnet by this author about a creature who "hath lain for ages and will lie / Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep / Until the latter fire shall heat the deep." For 10 points, name this author who poetically summarized the theories of Darwin as "nature, red in tooth and claw" in his poem In Memoriam A.H.H.
This author wrote a poem predicting that "the homeless planet at length will be wheel'd thro' the silence of space /
Alfred, Lord Tennyson