VI. A Romantic
Natural History Timeline: 1750-1859
VI. Natural Historians:
(The
Temple
of Nature, 1803)
Carolus Linnaeus
(1707-78), George-Louis Buffon (1707-88),
Gilbert
White (1720-93)
Oliver Goldsmith
(1728-74), Erasmus Darwin
(1731-1802),
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)
William Bartram (1739-1823), Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826),
William
Paley (1743-1805)
Jean
Lamarck (1744-1829), Benjamin Rush
(1746-1813),
Alexander
von Humboldt (1769-1859)
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), William
Smith (1769-1839),
Geoffray
St. Hilaire (1772-1844)
Adam
Sedgwick (1785-1873), John D.
Godman (1794-1830)
Louis
Agassiz (1807-73)
Charles Darwin (1809-82), Henry David
Thoreau (1817-62),
Spencer F. Baird (1823-87)
VII. Literary Figures:
("The
Fertilization
of Egypt," 1791)
James Thomson
(1700-48), John Dyer
(1700-58),
Thomas
Gray (1716-71)
Christopher
Smart (1722-71), Thomas
Warton (1728-90),
William Cowper (1731-1800)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825), Charlotte
Smith (1749-1806),
William Blake (1757-1827)
Robert Burns (1759-96), Ann
Radcliffe
(1764-1823),
William Wordsworth
(1770-1850),
Samuel Taylor
Coleridge (1772-1834), Lord Byron
(1788-1824),
Percy Bysshe
Shelley (1792-1822),
Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), John Clare
(1793-1864)
John Keats (1795-1821),
Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley (1797-1851), Letitia
Landon (1802-38)
Thomas
Beddoes (1803-49),
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(1809-92), Robert
Browning (1812-89)
VIII. Artists and
Illustrators:
(Nightingale,
Bewick, 1797)
Joseph Wright
of Derby (1734-92), Charles Willson
Peale (1741-1827)
Thomas
Bewick (1753-1828),
Rubens
Peale (1784-1865), John James
Audubon (1785-1851),
Titian Peale (1799-1885)
