Reason and the imagination
Subtitle: studies in the history of ideas, 1600-1800.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Nicolson, Marjorie Hope, 1894-; Seventeenth century; Eighteenth century; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
The studies are in honor of Marjorie Hope Nicolson.
Table of contents: title: Noble numbers and the poetry of devotion, by M. K. Starkman.; title: Cromwell as Davidic king, by J. A. Mazzeo.; title: The isolation of the Renaissance hero, by D. Bush.; title: The humanistic defence of learning in the mid-seventeenth century, by R. F. Jones.; title: Some paradoxes in the language of things, by R. L. Colie.; title: Milton's dialogue on astronomy, by A. O. Lovejoy.; title: Music, mirth, and Galenic tradition in England, by G. L. Finney.; title: Eve and Dalila: renovation and the hardening of the heart, by M. A. N. Radzinowicz.; title: The bird, the blind bard, and the fortunate fall, by A. D. Ferry.; title: The tragedy of God's Englishman, by W. Haller.; title: The Augustan conception of history, by H. Davis.; title: The Houyhnhnms, the Yahoos, and the history of ideas, by R. S. Crane.; title: Locke and Sterne, by E. Tuveson.; title: Literary criticism and artistic interpretation: eighteenth-century English illustrations of "The seasons," by R. Cohen.; title: Bibliographical afterword (p. 307-310)