Science and imagination

Nicolson, Marjorie Hope

Archon Books

To English poets and writers of the seventeenth century, as to their predecessors, mountains were ugly protuberances which disfigured nature and threatened the symmetry of earth; they were symbols God's wrath. Yet, less than two centuries later the romantic poets sang in praise of mountain splendor, of glorious heights that stirred their souls to divine ecstasy. In this very readable and fascinating study, Marjorie Hope Nicolson considers the intellectual renaissance at the close of the seventeenth century that caused the shift from mountain gloom to mountain glory. She examines various writers from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries and traces both the causes and the process of this drastic change in perception.

Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

University of Washington Press

In this book the author express more completely than in her earlier studies what were the implications for the poet of a great advance in scientific thought.Originally published in 1966.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's Opticks and the Eighteenth Century Poets (History of Ideas Series, No. 2.)

Nicholson, Marjorie H.

Biographies & Memoirs

Praeger

John Milton;: A reader's guide to his poetry

Octagon Books

In this book the author express more completely than in her earlier studies what were the implications for the poet of a great advance in scientific thought.
Originally published in 1966.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's Opticks and the 18th Century Poets (Princeton Legacy Library, 2275)

History & Criticism

Princeton University Press

The description for this book, This Long Disease, My Life: Alexander Pope and the Sciences, will be forthcoming.

This Long Disease, My Life: Alexander Pope and the Sciences (Princeton Legacy Library, 2093)

Rousseau, George Sebastian

When in his "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" Pope referred to “this long disease, my life,” his statement was quite literally true, since Pope, in addition to being a dwarf and a hunchback, suffered from many diseases during his lifetime. With technical advice from several physicians, the authors present the first medical case history of the poet. Drawing heavily upon the Correspondence for information about Pope's symptoms, they discuss the effect ill health had on his writings and the prevalence of medical themes in his works. The authors also explore Pope’s interests in astronomy (second only to his obsession with medicine), microscopy, geology, and physics and how they relate to his writings.
Originally published in 1968.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

When in his "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" Pope referred to "this long disease, my life," his statement was quite literally true, since Pope, in addition to being a dwarf and a hunchback, suffered from many diseases during his lifetime. With technical advice from several physicians, the authors present the first medical case history of the poet. Drawing heavily upon the Correspondence for information about Pope's symptoms, they discuss the effect ill health had on his writings and the prevalence of medical themes in his works. The authors also explore Pope's interests in astronomy (second only to his obsession with medicine), microscopy, geology, and physics and how they relate to his writings.Originally published in 1968.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Science and imagination

Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics)

Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's Opticks and the Eighteenth Century Poets (History of Ideas Series, No. 2.)

John Milton;: A reader's guide to his poetry

Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's Opticks and the 18th Century Poets (Princeton Legacy Library, 2275)

This Long Disease, My Life: Alexander Pope and the Sciences (Princeton Legacy Library, 2093)

This Long Disease, My Life: Alexander Pope and the Sciences (Princeton Legacy Library, 2093)

Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's Opticks and the 18th Century Poets (Princeton Legacy Library, 2275)

This Long Disease, My Life: Alexander Pope and the Sciences (Princeton Legacy Library, 2093)

Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's Opticks and the 18th Century Poets (Princeton Legacy Library, 2275)