First Follow Nature : Primitivism in English Poetry 1725-1750 / Margaret M. Fitzgerald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fitzgerald, Margaret M., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1947]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Looks at the fascination which nature has held for men of the early 18th century in their repeated desire to go "back to nature" or to live "according to nature" in the primitivism of the English poetry of the time.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Part I. Primitivism

1. Chronological and, Cultural

2. Cultural Primitivism

Part II. Vivere Secundum Naturam

1. Philosophical Aspects

2. Aesthetics

3. Ethics

Part IV. Appendices

Abbreviations Used in the Notes

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231882316

0231882319

OCLC:

1100441544