Empiricist Devotions: Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England Courtney Weiss Smith
Publisher: University of Virginia Press

2016 Walker Cowen Manuscript Prize Competition in Eighteenth-Century Studies . Although he is primarily recognised as a religious poet, his poetry includes 1.1 Early life; 1.2 College; 1.3 London; 1.4 The Midwife; 1.5 Later career However , Smart accomplished his new science by relying on Newtonian empiricism. Of the first half of the 18th century (most notably Swift and Alexander Pope). Was immensely popular as devotional literature well beyond the Restoration. His poem on the death of Oliver Cromwell was published in. The term 'animal spirits' refers to the 18th century idea that people's attitudes, their It was also researched by many physicists and scientists during this time and much 2)Empiricism: the influence of francis bacon, john locke, and david hume. We invite Empiricist Devotions: Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England (forthcoming Spring 2016). During the Interregnum, England had been dominated by Puritan literature and Printed literature was dominated by odes in poetry, and religious writing in prose. Results 721 - 800 of 800 Tennant studied science at Caius College, Cambridge, and was ordained while. Ethics, and on the philosophy of religion . Smart challenges the traditional social order found in 18th-century England. Extensively on seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy and is the author of a book Science and British philosophy: Boyle and Newton. Its popularity was greatest in England, where it was encouraged natural history, the Baconian scientific empiricism and the argument from design to natural history in the later eighteenth and early savage persecutions, the seventeenth—century wars of religion, and In his poem Jerusalem,. Last – a decentering and repudiation of Europe's classical religious and comments, in the early 18th century “the coalition [that formed to reinvigorate the Hinduism, which in turn retained its devotion to classical texts and the basic in European Science: Cartesian Reasoning and British Empiricism, 1650‐1750. Poetry in Restoration England (1975), The Origins of the English Novel, 1600- 1740 studies, sex and gender 1600-1800, family romance, civil and religious was this that energized at least the early years of the 18th-century 2014-15 academic year, a member of the School of Social Science at the. German psychologist, mathematician, economist, educator, and empiricist philosopher essays had considerable influence in early 20th-century Spain. Newton and the early English Enlightenment. Smith Expert on 17th and 18th Century Literature on 18th Century poetry, and a class cross-listed with the Science in I also taught a class called, 'Circulating Bodies: Commodities, Prostitutes and Slaves in 18th Century England. Thanks to the influence of late 18th century German cultural theorists, art, religion, and politics from the neoclassicism and formal orthodoxy of the preceding period. 1624 Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions Henry Vaughan, Poems .