Mirror of Minds

The aim of this book is to illustrate the ways in which at various periods English poetry has reflected current views of the human mind, with special reference to such topics as its place in the cosmos, its relations with the body, the connections between sense, passions, and reason, the problem of soul and its possible survival after death.

Geoffrey Bullough (1901-1982) taught at Tamworth Grammar School, and did pioneer work in adult education. He lectured at Manchester, Edinburgh, and Sheffield, and was Professor of English Language and Literature in King's College in the University of London. He is the co-editor of The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse and English Studies Today, author of The Trend of Modern Poetry, and editor of a major contribution to scholarship in the volumes of the Narrative and Dramatic Sources and Analogues of Shakespeare.