The Seventeenth Century Background - Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion

Penguin Books, 1962
This book offers a sketch of the intellectual background which helped to fashion the work of such men as Milton, Donne, Dryden, and other writers and theologians in what may claim to be the richest century in English literature and thought. The treatment, therefore, of the philosophies of Bacon, Sir Thomas Browne, Descartes, Hobbes, and Locke is of particular importance...