The Seventeenth Century Background: Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion

abstract Adam allegory ancient Aristotle atheism attributes Bacon belief Bible body Bohn Browne Browne's Cambridge Platonists Cartesian certainty Christian common notions conceive consciousness Cudworth Descartes Devil divine doctrine Dryden epic Essay evil existence explanation external fables fact faith fancy feel felt fiction Glanvill Glanvill's God's hath heaven heroic poem Hobbes Hobbes's holy human I. A. Richards ibid ideas imagination INDIANENSIS intellectual italics Joseph Glanvill kind knowledge Leviathan Locke Locke's material matter MDCCCXX means mechanical metaphysical Milton mind modern moral motion nature objects Paradise Lost phantasms philo philosophy poetic poetry poets principles prophetic prose rational rationalising realisation reality Reason religion religious Renaissance revelation Sadducismus Triumphatus Satan scholasticism scientific Scripture sect seems sense seventeenth century SIGILLUM Smith soul spirit Sprat supernatural Tertullian theology theory things thought tion traditional true truth universe VERITAS virtue words Wordsworth writes