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Author:

Bredvold, Louis I. (Louis Ignatius), 1888-1977.

Title:

The intellectual milieu of John Dryden; studies in some aspects of seventeenth-century thought, by Louis I. Bredvold.

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

1934

Description:

viii, 189 pages 24 cm.

Subject:

Dryden, John,--1631-1700.
Dryden, John (Schriftsteller,--1631-1700)
Dryden, John,--1631-1700.
Dryden, John,--1631-1700.
Philosophy--England--History.
Religious thought--17th century.
Seventeenth century.
Geistesgeschichte.
Philosophy.
Religious thought.
Seventeenth century.
England.
Geistesgeschichte.
1600-1699
History.

Notes:

"The bibliography of Roman Catholic controversy in England in the seventeenth century": pages 157-158.

Contents:

Part I: Introduction -- Dryden's character -- His conception of the poets intellectual qualifications -- His skeptical temper and thought -- Part II: The traditions of skepticism -- Greek -- Medieval and Christian -- The sixteenth century: Montaigne -- The seventeenth century: Pascal -- The seventeenth century: Browne -- Part III: The crisis of the new science -- The revival of materialism -- Hobbes -- The recourse to Pyrrhonism -- Dryden and Hobbes -- Dryden and the Royal Society -- Part IV: Roman Catholic apologetics in England -- Fideistic developments up to 1660 -- Dissemination of fideism, 1660-88 -- Simon's Critical history of the Old Testament -- Dryden's supposed deism -- The preparation for the poems on religion: Dryden's reading -- The philosophical content of the poems on religion -- Part V: Toryism -- Skepticism and conservatism -- Hobbs and Filmer -- Dryden's view of whiggism -- Drydne's formulation of toryism.

Series:

University of Michigan publications. Language and literature. vol. XII

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1703105

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)