Reason and Imagination

<p>First published in 1962 <i>Reason and Imagination</i> presents collection of fourteen essays dedicated to Marjorie Hope Nicholson and is divided equally between works of her colleagues and of her former students. It contains themes like noble numbers and poetry of devotion Cromwell as Davidic King the isolation of the renaissances hero Milton's dialogue on Astronomy music mirth and galenic traditions in England the Augustan conception of history Locke and Sterne and literary criticism and artistic interpretation to weave a narrative of the history of ideas in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. This book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of literary history philosophy comparative literature and English literature in general.</p>