From heavenly harmony to eloquent silence: Representations of world order from Dryden to Shelley

Review of English Studies

Volumn 55, Issue 221, 2004, Pages 527-544

  Williamson, Karina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1093/res/55.221.527     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. See L. Spitzer, Classical and Christian Ideas of World Harmony (Baltimore, 1963)
2. For a succinct account of 'speculative' and 'practical' music, see J. Hollander, The Untuning of the Sky: Ideas of Music in English Poetry, 1500-1700 (Princeton, 1961), ch. 2
3. Hollander, The Untuning of the Sky, 39
4. See D. T. Mace, 'Musical Humanism, the Doctrine of Rhythm us, and the St. Cecilia Day Odes of Dryden', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 27 (1964), 251-92
5. Poems, ed. A. R. Waller (Cambridge, 1905), 182-4
6. See P. Rattansi, 'Newton and the Wisdom of the Ancients', in J. Fauvel et al., Let Newton Be! (Oxford, 1988), 187-91
7. M. C. Battestin, The Providence of Wit: Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature and the Arts (Oxford, 1974), 6-7, Battestin knew but discounted Mace's argument
8. C. Rawson, 'More Providence than Wit: Some Recent Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Literature', in Order from Confusion Sprung (London, 1985), 384
9. and William Derham, Physico-Theology (London,1713; 12th edn,, 1754)
10. See C. E. Raven, Natural Religion and Christian Theology (Cambridge, 1953)
11. John Gilbert Cooper, The Power of Harmony (London, 1745), 11
12. David Mallet, The Excursion. A Poem in Two Books (London, 1728), 60-1
13. Richard Blackmore. Creation. A Philosophical Poem. Demonstrating the Existence and Providence of a God (2nd cdn., London, 1712), 57-8
14. J. T. Desaguliers, The Newtonian System of the World, the best Model of Government: An Allegorical Poem (London, 1728), p. iv
15. and J. Sambrook, James Thomson 1700-1748: A Life (Oxford, 1991), 52-3 and 57-9
16. H. N. Fairchild, Religious Trends in English Poetry, 1700-1740 (New York, 1939), 182
17. Moses Browne, Sunday Thoughts, pt. I, ll. 239-50, in The Works and Rest of the Creation (London, 1752), 124-5
18. Benjamin Martin, The Young Gentleman and Lady's Philosophy, In a Continued Survey of the Works of Nature and Art; By Way of Dialogue, 2 vols. (London, 1759), i. 253
19. A. Koyré, From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe (Baltimore, 1957), 2