Seventeenth Century Background: Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion (Pelican)

Politics & Social Sciences

Willey, Basil

Philosophy

Penguin Books, Ltd.

A WAY IN TO 18TH CENTURY THOUGHT, TO SHAFTESBURY, BUTLER, SWIFT, NARTLEY, HOLBACH AND PRIESTLEY.  HOW NATURE LED TO THE ROMANTIC REVIVAL. THE CONCEPT OF RELIGION, ETHICS, SCIENCE AND POLITICS.

The eighteenth-century background: studies on the idea of nature in the thought of the period (Pelican books)

Penguin

Nineteenth Century Studies. Coleridge To Matthew Arnold

Literature & Fiction

Penquin Books

Seventeenth Century Background Studies in the Thou

Columbia Univ. Pr.

<p>In this illuminating intellectual and spiritual biography, the distinguished critic Basil Willey traces the development of Coleridge’s religious and political views and shows how these views are revealed in his writings.</p> The central thread of the book is Coleridge’s life-long search―in Professor Willey’s words, “for a mind not passive but active; a will not frozen in necessity, but free and responsible; an Imagination not decorative but creative in the highest sense; and a God not identified or confused with Nature, but at once transcendent and redemptive.” Basil Willey’s rich understanding of Coleridge, and his lucid analysis of the complex philosophical issues in his work, will make this book invaluable to readers interested in English intellectual history.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Norton Library, N696)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

W.W.Norton&Company

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In this illuminating intellectual and spiritual biography, the distinguished critic Basil Willey traces the development of Coleridge’s religious and political views and shows how these views are revealed in his writings. The central thread of the book is Coleridge’s life-long search―in Professor Willey’s words, “for a mind not passive but active; a will not frozen in necessity, but free and responsible; an Imagination not decorative but creative in the highest sense; and a God not identified or confused with Nature, but at once transcendent and redemptive.” Basil Willey’s rich understanding of Coleridge, and his lucid analysis of the complex philosophical issues in his work, will make this book invaluable to readers interested in English intellectual history.

History & Criticism

Norton

Nineteenth-Century Studies

Harper-Torchbooks

<p>The late Professor Basil Willey's important and influential inquiry into the history of religious and moral ideas in the nineteenth century has become (since its first appearance in 1949) a seminal study for all students of English literature and the history of ideas. Instead of surveying a complex nexus of ideas from a single vantage point, the author examines a shifting succession of beliefs. Religion and ethics are both the clue to those beliefs and an index of their fluctuations, and Professor Willey offers a lucid exposition and impartial evaluation of the issues raging at the heart of Victorian life: progress, original sin, enlightened self-interest and the moral imperative. Individual chapters are devoted to Coleridge, Thomas Arnold, Newman, Carlyle, Bentham, Mill, Comte, George Eliot and Matthew Arnold. Professor Willey's particular achievement is to have clarified and reanimated these controversies so as to show their continuing relevance.</p>

Nineteenth Century Studies: Coleridge to Matthew Arnold

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

304p paperback, ex libris, neat ink and pencil notes (extensive) to endpapers, some marginal ticks, useful copy

More Nineteenth Century Studies: A Group of Honest Doubters

Pictorial DJ has some wear, small nicks to edge, and discoloured spine and rear wrap.

Cambridge and Other Memories: 1920-1953

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

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