Between the Ancients and the Moderns: Baroque Culture in Restoration England
Between the Ancients and the Moderns: Baroque Culture in Restoration England
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Levine, Joseph M.
Cl. New Haven, 1999
Book ID: 41238
offers a nuanced account of the seventeenth-century climate of ideas by examining the careers and intellectual lives of four prominent individuals and setting them among their friends and enemies: diarist John Evelyn; poet, playwright, and critic John Dryden; exiled French aristocrat Sieur de Saint-Evremond; and scientist and architect Christopher Wren.
279 pp., b&w illus.