Reason and Imagination : Studies in the History of Ideas 1600-1800 (Paperback)

Foreword 1. Noble Numbers and the Poetry of Devotion 2. Cromwell as Davidic King 3. The Isolation of the Renaissance Hero 4. The Humanistic Defence of Learning in the Mid-Seventeenth Century 5. Some Paradoxes in the Language of Things 6. Milton’s Dialogue on Astronomy 7. Music, Mirth, and Galenic Tradition in England 8. Eve and Dalila: Renovation and the Hardening of the Heart 9. The Bird, the Blind Bard, and the Fortunate Fall 10. The Tragedy of God’s Englishman 11. The Augustan Conception of History 12. The Houyhnhnms, the Yahoos, and the History of Ideas 13. Locke and Sterne 14. Literary Criticism and Artistic Interpretation: Eighteenth-Century English Illustrations of ‘The Seasons’ Bibliographical Afterword Index