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- Preface
- I. “Fallacious Muse”: Some Opinions of Cowley and Cowley’s Opinion of Poetry
- II. “Spirit, Through the Whole Mass Is Spread”: Divine and Human Love in a Phenomenal World
- III. “An Incurable Disease”: Sober Thought about Life and Art
- IV. “The Minds Right Object” and “Gigantique Sense”: The Influence of Bacon and Hobbes on Cowley’s Concept of Poetry
- V. “The Muse Me Her High Priest Would Make”: The Poet as Philosopher
- VI. “Truth Is Truest Poesie”: The Natural Philosophers' World of Order
- VII. “Pow’er of Natures King”: The World of Order in the Davideis
- VIII. “Nature’s Law”: The World of Order in the Plantarum
- IX. “Tide of Glory”: Cowley’s Position as a Poet
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index