Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's Opticks and the Eighteenth Century PoetsPrinceton University Press, 1946 - 177 pages Discusses Newton's scientific work Opticks, and its influence on English poetry. |
Contents
THE POPULAR reception of THE Opticks | 1 |
COLOR AND LIGHT IN THE DESCRIPTIVE POETS | 20 |
THE PHYSICS OF LIGHT IN | 55 |
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Newton Demands the Muse: Newton's Opticks and the 18th Century Poets Marjorie Hope Nicolson No preview available - 2015 |
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Addison Akenside Alhazen Autumn azure Bacon beam beauteous Blackmore Blake blaze Book bright Burke camera obscura Chalmers charming clouds color and light creation darkness David Mallett Descartes descriptive poets discoveries discussion Dunciad E. T. Whittaker earth edition eighteenth century poets Essay ether Excursion external nature flame heaven Henry Brooke hues human Ibid ideas interest Jago James Thomson light and color Locke and Newton London lustre Mark Akenside metaphysics Milton mind Nature's Newtonian theories Night Thoughts o'er objects Opticks optics and vision painted passage period philosophers Pleasures of Imagination poetic poetry Pope Principia prism radiant rainbow rays Reason reflected refracted retina Reynolds Richard Jago Samuel Boyse scene scientific scientists Scriblerians sense shade shines sight Sir Isaac Newton skies soul Spring streams sublime Summer thee things Thomson thro tion tonian tribute Universal Beauty various versifiers wrote yellow