1st Edition

Reason and Imagination Studies in the History of Ideas 1600-1800

Edited By Joseph Anthony Mazzeo Copyright 1962
344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1962, Reason and Imagination presents collection of fourteen essays dedicated to Marjorie Hope Nicholson and is divided equally between works of her colleagues and of her former students. It contains themes like noble numbers and poetry of devotion, Cromwell as Davidic King, the isolation of the renaissances hero, Milton’s dialogue on Astronomy, music, mirth and galenic... Read more

Foreword 1. Noble Numbers and the Poetry of Devotion Miriam K. Starkman 2. Cromwell as Davidic King J.A. Mazzeo 3. The Isolation of the Renaissance Hero Douglas Bush 4. The Humanistic Defence of Learning in the Mid-Seventeenth Century R.F. Jones 5. Some Paradoxes in the Language of Things R.L. Colie 6. Milton’s Dialogue on Astronomy Arthur O. Lovejoy 7. Music, Mirth, and Galenic Tradition in England Gretchen Ludke Finney 8. Eve and Dalila: Renovation and the Hardening of the Heart Mary Ann Nevins Radzinowicz 9. The Bird, The Blind Bard, and The Fortunate Fall Anne Davidson Ferry 10. The Tragedy of God’s Englishman William Haller 11. The Augustan Conception of History Herbert Davis 12. The Houyhnhnms, The Yahoos, and The History of Ideas R. S. Crane 13. Locke and Sterne Ernest Tuveson 14. Literary Criticism and Artistic Interpretation: Eighteenth-Century English Illustrations of ‘The Seasons’ Ralph Cohen Bibliographical Afterword Index

Biography

Joseph Anthony Mazzeo