Angus Fletcher was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

This meditation on the relation of literature and science in the late sixteenth and earlier seventeenth centuries is certainly in a class by itself. More than any other living literary critic, Fletcher brings a perspective on the world of letters that we might call Olympian.

• Introduction 1. Galileo's Metaphor 2. The Theme of Motion 3. On Drama, Poetry, and Movement 4. Marlowe Invents the Deadline 5. The Defense of the Interim 6. Structure of an Epitaph 7. Donne's Apocryphal Wit 8. Milton and the Moons of Jupiter Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Index

Angus Fletcher was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

This meditation on the relation of literature and science in the late sixteenth and earlier seventeenth centuries is certainly in a class by itself. More than any other living literary critic, Fletcher brings a perspective on the world of letters that we might call Olympian.

• Introduction 1. Galileo's Metaphor 2. The Theme of Motion 3. On Drama, Poetry, and Movement 4. Marlowe Invents the Deadline 5. The Defense of the Interim 6. Structure of an Epitaph 7. Donne's Apocryphal Wit 8. Milton and the Moons of Jupiter Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Index

Angus Fletcher was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

This meditation on the relation of literature and science in the late sixteenth and earlier seventeenth centuries is certainly in a class by itself. More than any other living literary critic, Fletcher brings a perspective on the world of letters that we might call Olympian.

• Introduction 1. Galileo's Metaphor 2. The Theme of Motion 3. On Drama, Poetry, and Movement 4. Marlowe Invents the Deadline 5. The Defense of the Interim 6. Structure of an Epitaph 7. Donne's Apocryphal Wit 8. Milton and the Moons of Jupiter Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Index