Science and English Poetry: A Historical Sketch 1590-1950

Bush, Douglas
Publication Date 1950
Publisher Oxford University Press,
Binding Paperback
Condition Good, sound, ex-library copy
SKU 21939
Notes Ex-library copy with usual stamps, labels and numbers etc. Blue cloth with silver titles to spine and silver border that extends onto the boards is clean apart from the library numbering but is faded to the edges. Dust jacket is also clean but rubbed and scuffed with numbers to spine.

Description

Hardback. 166pp. Covers the resistance of seventeenth century poets to the sceptical rationalism of Descartes and Hobbs; the rebellion of the Romantics against scientific rationalism; geology, biology and Biblical Criticism for the Victorians; war and politics for the twentieth century, etc. The Patten Lectures, Indiana University 1949.
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