Francis Bacon and Scientific PoetryDIANE Publishing Inc., 1992 - 65 sider |
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abstract Advancement Aeneid allegoresis ancient scientific antiquity argument Aristotelian Aristotle Aristotle's arts of speech assertion atom augmentis Baconian Book Chap cited claim classical Coelum context Criticism Democri Democritean Democritus Didactic Poem Diogenes Laertius discussion divine Echo Eclogues elements Empedocles epic Epicurus epistemology exposition Farrington feigned history fragments Francis Bacon genre Georgics Hesiod hexameter images Jardine kind Kirk language Latin learning literary Loeb Lucretian Lucretius magnanimity and morality metaphor mimesis mimetic mind modern motions myth Narrative Poesy natural history natural philosophy non-mimetic Novum Organum numbers observations Parabolical Poesy Parmenides passage philo philoso Plato poet Presocratic Philosophers Presocratic poet-philosopher principiis quotations reference to Empedocles Renaissance rerum natura rhetorical says Schuler and Fitch scientific ideas scientific poems scientific poetry scientific prose subject matter Syringa Syringian discourse Telesius theoretical things tific tion tradition University Press Virgil Virgil's Georgics Virgilian W. H. D. Rouse winds Wisdom words and voices writing Xenophanes
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Side 15 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
Side 59 - POESY is a part of learning in measure of words for the most part restrained, but in all other points extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the imagination; which, being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure join that which nature hath severed, and sever that which nature hath joined, and so make unlawful matches and divorces of things...
Side 12 - THE best division of human learning is that derived from the three faculties of the rational soul, which is the seat of learning. History has reference to the Memory, poesy to the Imagination, and philosophy to the Reason.
Side 17 - The sciences themselves, which have had better intelligence and confederacy with the imagination of man than with his reason, are three in number; astrology, natural magic, and alchemy: of which sciences, nevertheless, the ends or pretences are noble.
Side 20 - It is taken in two senses in respect of words or matter. In the first sense it is but a character of style, and belongeth to arts of speech, and is not pertinent for the present. In the...
Side 16 - ... to be accounted rather as a pleasure or play of wit than a science. And for the power of the imagination in nature, I have just now assigned it to the doctrine concerning the soul. And its relation to rhetoric I think best to refer to that art itself, which I shall handle hereafter.
Side 15 - ... the skill of the artificer standeth in that idea or fore-conceit of the work, and not in the work itself. And that the poet hath that idea is manifest, by delivering them forth in such excellency as he hath imagined them.
Side 15 - Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.
Side 48 - Never cite an author except in a matter of doubtful credit; never introduce a controversy unless in a matter of great moment. And for all that concerns ornaments of speech, similitudes, treasury of eloquence, and such like emptinesses, let it be utterly dismissed. Also let all those things which are admitted be themselves set down briefly and concisely, so that they may be nothing less than words.
Side 1 - Even when a treatise on medicine or natural science is brought out in verse, the name of poet is by custom given to the author; and yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common but the metre, so that it would be right to call the one poet, the other physicist rather than poet.