The Seventeenth Century Background: Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion

Columbia University Press (1952)
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Cambridge Professor Basil Willey wrote this volume as a companion to his preceding work on the Seventeenth Century Background. Whereas the 17th C. key word was "Truth," he maintains the 18th C key word was "Nature." Organized in 12 chapters including "The Wisdom of God in the Creation, Cosmic Toryism, Natural Morality--Shaftesbury, Nature in Satire, Jos. Priestley and the Socinian Moonlight, and Nature in Wordsworth.

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1953, 1955, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1979

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9780231897327   1397832150   0231941668   0140214852

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10.7312/will94166
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