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The Waning of the Renaissance 1640–1740

Studies in the Thought and Poetry of Henry More, John Norris and Isaac Watts

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. The Source: Henry More

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: The Fourth Ground of Certainty

      • John Hoyles
      Pages 3-11

    3. Philosophy: Descartes and Plato

      • John Hoyles
      Pages 12-28

    4. Religion: Latitude and Pietism

      • John Hoyles
      Pages 29-44

    5. Aesthetics: From Metaphysical to Romantic

      • John Hoyles
      Pages 45-64

    6. More’s Work as Literature

      • John Hoyles
      Pages 65-72

  3. The Verge: John Norris

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Introduction: A Transitional Figure

      • John Hoyles
      Pages 75-78

    3. Norris and the Enlightenment

      • John Hoyles
      Pages 79-91

    4. Philosophy: “Platonic Gibberish”

      • John Hoyles
      Pages 92-110

    5. Religion: The Grounds of Assent

      • John Hoyles
      Pages 111-121

    6. Poetry: The Last of the Metaphysicals

      • John Hoyles
      Pages 122-139

  4. The Result: Isaac Watts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Introduction: Classicism and the Enlightenment

      • John Hoyles
      Pages 143-148

    3. The English Enlightenment

      • John Hoyles
      Pages 149-163

    4. Free Philosophy

      • John Hoyles
      Pages 164-174

    5. Sunk Religion

      • John Hoyles
      Pages 175-189

    6. Aesthetics

      • John Hoyles
      Pages 190-198

    7. The Sublime

      • John Hoyles
      Pages 199-212
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About this book

It is not always easy to maintain a proper balance between the delineation of cultural development within a given literary field and the claims of practical criticism. And yet if the history of ideas is to be more than a pastime for the student of literature, it must be rooted in the precise art of discrimination. The following chapters attempt to describe and evaluate a particular cultural development by relating the background of ideas to the literary achievement of three writers. It will be sufficient here to out­ line the nature of the problem, and the method and approach employed. The concept of cultural development implies a recognition of the con­ nections between ideology and aesthetics. There are at least two ways of exploring such connections. The one, pioneered by Basil Willey, seeks to situate the critical moments of our cultural development in the back­ ground of ideas, without which the contribution of a particular author cannot be justly evaluated. The danger of such an approach is that the task of discrimination comes to depend over-heavily on extra-literary criteria.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Waning of the Renaissance 1640–1740

  • Book Subtitle: Studies in the Thought and Poetry of Henry More, John Norris and Isaac Watts

  • Authors: John Hoyles

  • Series Title: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3008-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1971

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-5077-1Published: 31 July 1971

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3010-6Published: 12 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-3008-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0066-6610

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0307

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 266

  • Topics: Modern Philosophy, History, general

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