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Licensed Unlicensed Requires Authentication Published by Princeton University Press 1969

6. THE POET AS FREE-THINKER

From the book Intellectual Development of Voltaire

  • Ira O. Wade
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400877829-007
© 2016 Princeton University Press, Princeton
From the book
Intellectual Development of Voltaire
Intellectual Development of Voltaire

Chapters in this book (34)

Frontmatter
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I. THE POET
1. EARLY TRAINING
2. VOLTAIRE'S LITERARY MASTERS
3. VOLTAIRE'S ANCESTORS IN LYRIC POETRY
4. POETRY AND ANTI-POETRY
5. THE POET AND HIS ART
6. THE POET AS FREE-THINKER
PART II. THE CIVILIZATION OF ENGLAND AND ITS MEANING FOR VOLTAIRE
1. VOLTAIRE IN ENGLAND
2. THE PUBLICATION OF THE HENRIADE
3. VOLTAIRE’S OBSERVATIONS OF ENGLAND: THE CORRESPONDENCE
4. VOLTAIRE'S OBSERVATIONS OF ENGLAND: THE NOTEBOOKS
5. VOLTAIRE'S LITERARY ACTIVITIES
6. THE IMPACT OF THE ENGLISH EXPERIENCE
7. INTERLUDE, 1728–1734: THE RESULTS OF THE ENGLISH EXPERIENCE
8. FROM POET TO PHILOSOPHER
PART III. CIREY: THE REEDUCATION OF VOLTAIRE
1. CIREY
2. MME DU CHATELET AND VOLTAIRE
3. VOLTAIRE AND FREDERICK
4. THE DIVERSITY OF ACTIVITY AT CIREY
5. 1738–1739: THE REVOLUTION OF A HUMAN MIND
6. CONTROVERSY
7. VOLTAIRE AND THE SCIENCE OF 1738
8. VOLTAIRE AND HISTORY
9. BIBLICAL CRITICISM
10. THE MEANING OF THE CIREY EXPERIENCE
PART IV. THE PHILOSOPHER
1. VOLTAIRE AND THE PHILOSOPHERS
2. VOLTAIRE’S WORLD
3. PHILOSOPHER, “PHILOSOPHE,” FREE-THINKER, OR POET?
4. VOLTAIREANISM AND THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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