The rhetoric of science : a study of scientific ideas and imagery in eighteenth-century English poetry /
| Основен автор: | Jones, William Powell, 1901- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley,
University of California Press,
1966.
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| Подобни документи: |
Online version::
Rhetoric of science. |
Съдържание:
- Preface
- I. The background of science and ideas
- II. The continuity of old ideas after 1700
- Science in poetry before 1700
- Science in Biblical paraphrases
- The continuity of skepticism
- Satire on science, 1660-1760
- III. Science in poetry: the new look after 1700
- The aesthetics of scientific poetry
- Scientific poems from Reynolds to Thomson
- Newton, symbol of science
- IV. The triumph of physico-theology in poetry
- Thomson and his circle
- Poetical essays on the wisdom of God in nature, 1727-39
- V. The new science in moral poems
- VI. The transition: 1750-1770
- The lyric elements in scientific poems
- Moral-scientific poems after Young
- The image of Thomson emerges
- VII. Natural history in English poetry, 1760-1800
- the aesthetics of natural history in poetry
- The influence of Thomson
- Exotic botany and Sir Joseph Banks
- VIII. The didactic dilemma in scientific poetry
- IX. The end of an era: the prelude to Wordsworth
- Epilogue
- Bibliography: Check-list of selected scientific poems.