Ranging from Jonson to Rochester and including several critically neglected figures, select poetic contemporaries variously illuminate the scope of Hobbes’s writing and the reach of his influence, in turn shedding diverse lights on the nature of their own work.
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How he did Grow – (Hobbes, Hobbes, and Hobbes) To Governe the Reader – (Hobbes and Davenant) Plain Magick – (Hobbes and Cowley) Joynt Innterest – (Hobbes and Waller) Absurd and Foolish Philosophy – (Hobbes and Rochester) Common Passions – (Hobbes and Suckling) Sufficiently Disposed (Hobbes and Godolphin) Ordinary Artifice – (Hobbes and Jonson)About the author
Richard Hillyer is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of South Alabama, USA.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 248 ● ISBN 9780230604346 ● File size 1.9 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Published 2007 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2306777 ● Copy protection Social DRM