The poetic Enlightenment : poetry and human science, 1650-1820

The Essays In This Edited Collection Look At The Role Of Poetry In The Development Of Enlightenment Ideas. As Scholarly Disciplines Began To Emerge - Anthropology, Linguistics, Psychology - The Ancient And Innate Art Of Poetry Was Invoked To Create New Ways Of Communicating This Philosophy Of Human Science. Acknowledgements; List Of Contributors; General Introduction; 1. Introduction To Part I; 2. Samuel Johnson And The 'science' Of Literary Criticism; 3. Prosody, Knowledge And Humanity In Enlightenment Language Science; 4. Ferguson's School For Literature; 5. Introduction To Part Ii; 6. Hobbes And Davenant: Poetry As Civil Science; 7. Facing The Misery Of Others; 8. Poetical Stoical Shaftesbury; 9. Morality As A Discourse Of The Imagination; 10. Introduction To Part Iii; 11. James Thomson's Seasons And The Transformative Potential Of Poetry; 12. 'furnishing Light': Wordsworth, Poetry And The Science Of Manin Enlightenment Scotland; 13. Wordsworth, Kant, Fanaticism And Humanity; Notes; Index. Edited By Tom Jones And Rowan Boyson. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 169-199) And Index.