The Seventeenth Century Background: Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and ReligionColumbia University Press, 1962 - 315 pages Designed to furnish the reader of 17th century literature with an overview of the intellectual background of the period by looking at the works of Browne, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Glanville, and Locke. |
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The Seventeenth Century Background: Studies in the Thought of the Age in ... Basil Willey No preview available - 2018 |
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abstract Adam allegory ancient Aristotle atheism attributes Bacon belief Bible body Bohn Browne Browne's Cambridge Platonists Cartesian cause certainty Christ Christian common notions conceive consciousness Cudworth Descartes divine doctrine Dryden earth eighteenth century epic Essay existence experience explanation external fables fact faith fancy feeling felt Galileo Glanvill Glanvill's God's Heaven heroic poem Hobbes Hobbes's holy human I. A. Richards ibid ideas imagination intellectual italics kind knowledge Leviathan Locke Locke's matter meaning mechanical philosophy Mencius metaphysical Milton mind modern moral motion myth nature object Paradise Lost passage perhaps Philo philosophy Platonists poet poetic poetry principle prose rational rationalising reality Reason rejection religion religious Renaissance revelation Satan scholastic scholasticism scientific Scripture sect seems sense seventeenth century soul spirit St Thomas supernatural Tertullian theology theory things thought tion tradition true truth universe virtue whole words Wordsworth writes