ABSTRACT

Full of devious tangents, this continuation of the ‘Loves of the Triangles’ grows more varied and lascivious, exposing the Jacobin libido under its scientific rationale. The science is further undermined by this poem’s cabbalistic atmosphere. The incantatory trilogies may be prompted by the Botanic Garden, Part Two, Interlude Three, where Darwin digresses lengthily on the ‘Three Sisters’ of Poetry, Painting and Music (and mentions Lear).