Reason and the imagination : studies in the history of ideas, 1600-1800
- Author
- Mazzeo, Joseph Anthony, 1923-
- Published
- New York : Columbia University Press, 1962.
- Physical Description
- viii, 321 pages : plates ; 23 cm
- Contents
- Noble numbers and the poetry of devotion, by M. K. Starkman.--Cromwell as Davidic king, by J. A. Mazzeo.--The isolation of the Renaissance hero, by D. Bush.--The humanistic defence of learning in the mid-seventeenth century, by R. F. Jones.--Some paradoxes in the language of things, by R. L. colie.--Milton's dialogue on astronomy, by A. O. Lovejoy.--Music, mirth, and Galenic tradition in England, by G. L. Finney.--Eve and Dalila: renovation and the hardening of the heart, by M. A. N. Radzinowcz.--The bird, the blind bard, and the fortunate fall, by A. D. Ferry.--The tragedy of God's Englishman, by W. Haller.--the Augustan conception of history, by H. Davis.--The Houyhnhnms, the Yahoos, and the history of ideas, by R. S. Crane.--Locke and Sterne, by E. Tuveson.--Literary criticism and artistic interpretation: eighteenth-century English illustrations of "The seasons," by R. Cohen.--Bibliographical afterword (p. 307-310).
- Subject(s)
- Note
- The studies are in honor of Marjorie Hope Nicolson.
- Bibliography Note
- Bibliographical footnotes.
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