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: | 9781403941725 |
| Publication date: | 15th September 2005 |
| Author: | Tom Jones |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 203 pages |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: poetry and poets Philosophical traditions and schools of thought Philosophy |
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.
Pope and Berkeley features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Philosophy
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Pope and Berkeley was written by Tom Jones and published by Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK
Pope and Berkeley has 203 pages
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