The first study dedicated to the relationship between Alexander Pope and George Berkeley, this book undertakes a comparative reading of their work on the visual environment, economics and providence, challenging current ideas of the relationship between poetry and philosophy in early eighteenth-century Britain. It shows how Berkeley's idea that the phenomenal world is the language of God, learnt through custom and experience, can help to explain some of Pope's conservative sceptical arguments, and also his virtuoso poetic techniques.
| ISBN: | 9781349521029 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 2005 |
| Author: | T. Jones |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 203 pages |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: poetry and poets Philosophy Philosophical traditions and schools of thought |