Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Marjorie Hope Nicolson
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The Virtuoso
First published in 1676, The Virtuoso set a standard for theatrical satire. It was the most extensive dramatic treatment of modern science since Jonson's The Alchemist and took as …
Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory
To English poets and writers of the seventeenth century, as to their predecessors, mountains were ugly protuberances which disfigured nature and threatened the symmetry of earth; …
Newton Demands the Muse
In this book the author express more completely than in her earlier studies what were the implications for the poet of a great advance in scientific thought. Originally published …
The Conway Letters
Lady Anne Conway was a remarkable woman who became a philosopher in her own right at a time when most women were denied even basic education. The Conway Letters is the record of …
Science and Imagination
""Science and Imagination"" by Marjorie Hope Nicolson is a collection of essays that explores the relationship between science and literature. The book delves into the ways in …
Newton Demands the Muse
This Long Disease, My Life
When in his "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" Pope referred to "this long disease, my life," his statement was quite literally true, since Pope, in addition to being a dwarf and a …