Acknowledgements; Conventions and Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Atomic Congruity: The Philosophical Poetry of Henry More; 2. Thomas Traherne's Atoms, Souls and Poems; 3. World-Making and World-Breaking: The Atom Poems of Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter; 4. The Atom in Genesis: Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder ; Afterword: A Poetics of the Atom
Summary
An investigation into the remarkable poetics of the atom in English literary texts from the mid- to late-seventeenth century
Notes
1. Atomic Congruity: The Philosophical Poetry of Henry More -- 2. Thomas Traherne's Atoms, Souls and Poems -- 3. World-Making and World-Breaking: The Atom Poems of Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter -- 4. The Atom in Genesis: Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder -- Afterword: A Poetics of the Atom
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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