The studies are in honor of Marjorie Hope Nicolson.

Noble numbers and the poetry of devotion, by M. K. Starkman.--Cromwell as Davidic king, by J. A. Mazzeo.--The isolation of the Renaissance hero, by D. Bush.--The humanistic defence of learning in the mid-seventeenth century, by R. F. Jones.--Some paradoxes in the language of things, by R. L. Colie.--Milton's dialogue on astronomy, by A. O. Lovejoy.--Music, mirth, and Galenic tradition in England, by G. L. Finney.--Eve and Dalila: renovation and the hardening of the heart, by M. A. N. Radzinowicz.--The bird, the blind bard, and the fortunate fall, by A. D. Ferry.--The tragedy of God's Englishman, by W. Haller.--The Augustan conception of history, by H. Davis.--The Houyhnhnms, the Yahoos, and the history of ideas, by R. S. Crane.--Locke and Sterne, by E. Tuveson.--Literary criticism and artistic interpretation: eighteenth-century English illustrations of "The seasons," by R. Cohen.--Bibliographical afterword (p. 307-310)