 | Origin and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England: Bacon, Milton, Butler Subjects: Bacon Francis 1561–1626. Novum organum; Milton John 1608–1674. Paradise lost; Butler Samuel 1612–1680. Hudibras; Beginning -- History -- 17th century; English poetry -- Early modern 1500–1700 -- History and criticism; Writing with economy, clarity, and verve, Snider revises the intellectual history of the seventeenth century, superimposing a new narrative of disintegrating confidence on the old one of the triumph of science over poetry. Snider Alvin : Alvin Snider is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa. |
