Readings

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Buy at Amazon Blake, William. The Book of Urizen. Mineola, NY: Dover, 1997. ISBN: 0486298019.

Buy at Amazon Keats, John. Complete Poems. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982. ISBN: 0674154304.

Buy at Amazon Wordsworth, William, and S. T. Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads. 2nd ed. London, NY: Routledge, 1991. ISBN: 0415063884.

Readings listed as "Available Online" are available at Literature Online.

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The Scope of Reason: Moral and Intellectual Backgrounds
1 Buy at Amazon Graham, Jorie. "Thinking." In Materialism. New York, NY: Ecco, 1993. ISBN: 0880013427.
2 Plato. The Collected Dialogues of Plato. Edited by Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns. Princeton, NJ: Bollingen, 1961.
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Buy at Amazon Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Edited by Alexander Campbell Fraser. 2 vols. New York, NY: Dover, 1959. ISBN: 0486205304 and 0486205312.

Buy at Amazon Fox, Christopher. "Defining Eighteenth-Century Psychology: Some Problems and Perspectives." In Psychology and Literature in the Eighteenth Century. New York, NY: AMS Press, 1987. pp. 1-22. ISBN: 0404614744.

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Buy at Amazon Newton, Isaac. Opticks. New York, NY: Dover, 1952. ISBN: 0486602052.

Buy at Amazon Voltaire. Letters Concerning the English Nation. Edited by Nicholas Cronk. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN: 0192826018.

Thomson, James. "To the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton." (Available Online)

Bowden, Samuel. "A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton." In Poetical essays on Several Occasions (1733-1735). (Available Online)

5 Buy at Amazon Pope, Alexander. "Essay on Man." In Poems. Edited by John Butt. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1963, bk. 1-2, 4. ISBN: 0300003404.
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Buy at Amazon Addison, Joseph. "The Spectator." In Selected Essays from the Tatler, the Spectator and the Guardian. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1973. ISBN: 0672609908.

Buy at Amazon Akenside, Mark. The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside. Edited by Robin Dix. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996, bk. 1. ISBN: 0838635350.

7 Buy at Amazon Akenside, Mark. The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside. Edited by Robin Dix. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996, bk. 2-3. ISBN: 0838635350.
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Hartley, David. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations. 2 vols. London, UK: J. Johnson, 1791.

Buy at Amazon Young, Edward. Night Thoughts. Edited by Stephen Cornford. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN: 052134185X.

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Buy at Amazon Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester. The Debt to Pleasure. Edited by John Adlard. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002. ISBN: 0415940842.

La Mettrie, Julien Offray de. Man a Machine. Translated by Gertrude Carman Bussey. La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1987.

The Bounds of Reason: Melancholia and Madness
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Cheyne, George. The English malady: or, a treatise of nervous diseases of all kinds. London, UK: G. Strahan and J. Leake, 1733.

Matthew Green. "The Spleen." Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1754. (Available Online)

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Gray, Thomas. "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College." In Poems. London, UK: Everyman's Library, 1912. (Available Online)

---. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." In Poems. London, UK: Everyman's Library, 1912. (Available Online)

Warton, Thomas. "The Pleasures of Melancholy." In Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology. Edited by David Fairer and Christine Gerrard. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1999.

Collins, William. Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects. New York, NY: Payson & Clarke, 1927.

12 Smart, Christopher. "Jubilate Agno." In The Poetical Works. vol 1. Edited by Karina Williamson. Oxford, UK: Clarendon, 1980. (Available Online)
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Buy at Amazon Blake, William. "An Island in the Moon." In The Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Edited by David V. Erdman. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1970. ISBN: 0385031971.

Buy at Amazon ---. "Mock on, Mock on..." In The Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Edited by David V. Erdman. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1970. ISBN: 0385031971. (Available Online)

Buy at Amazon ---. "You Don't Believe I Won't Attempt to Make Ye." In The Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Edited by David V. Erdman. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1970. ISBN: 0385031971.

14 Buy at Amazon Blake, William. "The Book of Urizen." In The Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Edited by David V. Erdman. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1970. ISBN: 0385031971. (Available Online)
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The Scientific Poem and its Critique
16 Buy at Amazon Lucretius. On the Nature of the Universe. Translated by R.E. Latham. New York, NY: Penguin, 1994, bk. 1, 4. ISBN: 0140446109.
17 Buy at Amazon Thomson, James. "Summer." In The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence. Edited by James Sambrook. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1987. ISBN: 0198710704.
18 Armstrong, John. The Art of Preserving Health, bk. 1, lines 1-63; bk. 4. (Available Online)
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Darwin, Erasmus. The Botanic Garden: A Poem in Two Parts. London, UK: J. Johnson, 1791. (Available Online).

Buy at Amazon Canning, George and John Hookham Frere. "The Loves of the Triangles." In Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. New York, NY: Woodstock Books, 1991. ISBN: 1854770675.

20 Darwin, Erasmus. The Temple of Nature; or, The origin of society: a poem, with philosophical notes. London, UK: J. Johnson, 1803, cantos 1, 3. (Available Online)
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Wordsworth. Lyrical Ballads.

Preface

"The Thorn" (with Note to "The Thorn") (Available Online)

"The Idiot Boy" (Available Online)

"Goody Blake and Harry Gill" (Available Online)

"Simon Lee" (Available Online)

"We are Seven" (Available Online)

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Wordsworth. Lyrical Ballads. (cont.)

"Expostulation and Reply" (Available Online)

"The Tables Turned" (Available Online)

"Lines, Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" (Available Online)

Keats, Medicine, and the Poetic Mind
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Keats, John. John Keats's Anatomical and physiological note book. Edited by Maurice Buxton Forman. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1934.

Buy at Amazon Bell, Charles. "Idea of a New Anatomy of the Brain." In The Way in and the way out: Francois Magendie, Charles Bell, and the roots of the spinal nerves. Edited by Paul F. Cranefeld. Mt. Kisco, NY: Futura, 1974. ISBN: 0879930357.

Keats. In drear-nighted December.

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Keats. "To My Brother George," Sleep and Poetry," and "Lamia." (Available Online)

Hazlitt, William. "On Poetry in General."

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Keats. "Ode to Psyche," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode to Melancholy," and "Ode to Indolence." (Available Online)

Sel. Keats Letters

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