Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's Opticks and the 18th Century Poets
Hardcover
Paperback
- Price:
- $39.00/拢32.00
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- Published:
- Dec 8, 2015
- Copyright:
- 1966
- Pages:
- 192
- Size:
- 5 x 8 in.
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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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