William Bowman Piper

Datos Biográficos

ID1139282
NOMBREWilliam Bowman Piper
NOMBRESWilliam Bowman
APELLIDOPiper
FIRMAPIPER W B
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAS0
OBRAS COMO AUTOR9
OBRAS COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1958
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2002
ÍNDICE H0

  • From the Temple to the Castle

    Open AccessTita Chico, Lee Morrissey et al.ARTICLESouth Central Review2002

  • Immaterialist Aesthetics

    Open AccessWilliam H McGowan, William Bowman PiperARTICLESouth Central Review1991

  • Similitude as Satire in The Beggar's Opera

    William Bowman PiperARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1988

    AT THE END OF Spectator No. 62, Joseph Addison made the surprising discovery that wit, the genius of poetic creativity, was not devoted solely to similitude, as John Locke had suggested in his great Essay concerning Human Understanding,. but rather to the dynamic interrelationship between similitude and difference or, to use Addison's terms, between resemblance and opposition.2 I must not dismiss the subject of wit, he says, in concluding his exa…

  • The Invulnerability of Poetic Experience

    Open AccessWilliam Bowman PiperARTICLESouth Central Review1987

    may prompt the reader to make a substantial verbal revision. The expression verges here on an expression that is simpler and more in keeping with the quatrain's prevailing rhetoric. Because of the parallel between And in line two and And s... in 4, a pattern that is enforced by the parallel When clauses in lines 1 and 3; because of the normal opposition in English between white, which appears at the end of line 4, and black, an opposition that wo…

  • Pope on Classic Ground

    Open AccessWilliam Bowman Piper, G F C PlowdenARTICLESouth Central Review1984

  • Kant's Contact With British Empiricism

    William Bowman PiperARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1978

    NOT MANY HISTORIANS OF PHILOSOPHY these days devote their attention to James Beattie's Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth (1770);' nor does it seem to deserve much attention. This work is chiefly notable in itself for the dogmatic enthusiasm with which it defended orthodox religion, for its outspoken contempt of philosophical insouciance, and for its lively misrepresentation of Berkeley and Hume. Beattie's own friends had misgivings, w…

  • A Poem Turned in Process

    William Bowman PiperARTICLEELH1976

  • The Benevolence of Laughter

    William Bowman Piper, David Farley‐Hills et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1975

  • Berkeley's Demonstration of God

    Open AccessWilliam Bowman PiperARTICLEHarvard Theological Review1958

    Berkeley's demonstration of God is not philosophically the most important part of his Principles of Human Knowledge. But a close understanding of this demonstration helps one realize just how clearly Berkeley saw, or was willing to see, the logical consequences of those tenets of the Principles which have proven important in the course of philosophy. A step by step analysis of the proof also discloses how much of his philosophical and religious h…