Literature

Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's Opticks and the 18th Century Poets

Paperback

Price:
$39.00/拢32.00
ISBN:
Published:
Dec 8, 2015
1966
Pages:
192
Size:
5 x 8 in.

This book offers a revealing analysis of the influence of Isaac Newton鈥檚 Opticks on the poetic imagination during the first half of the eighteenth century. Marjorie Hope Nicolson considers the impact of Newtonian theories on the descriptive and 鈥渟cientific鈥 poets, and the aesthetic and metaphysical implications they found in his work.

Originally published in 1946.

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