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Reason and the imagination : studies in the history of ideas, 1600-1800 /

Reason and the imagination : studies in the history of ideas, 1600-1800 / edited by J. A. Mazzeo. - New York : London : Columbia University Press ; Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962. - viii, 321 p. : plates ; 23 cm.

The studies are in honor of Marjorie Hope Nicolson.

Bibliographical footnotes and index.

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. Radzinowicz.--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


Nicolson, Marjorie Hope, 1894-1981.


Seventeenth century
Eighteenth century


Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.

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