When in his "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" Pope referred to 鈥渢his long disease, my life,鈥� his statement was quite literally true, since Pope, in addition to being a dwarf and a hunchback, suffered from many diseases during his lifetime....
This book offers a revealing analysis of the influence of Isaac Newton’s Opticks on the poetic imagination during the first half of the eighteenth century. Marjorie Hope Nicolson considers the impact of Newtonian theories on the...
