New York Review Books, Sachbücher, Margaret Cavendish (Englisch, Margaret Cavendish, 2019)

Table of Contents Introduction Note on the Text Further reading To All Noble and Worthy Ladies To the Reader Poems The Poetress&rsquo s Hasty Resolution The Poetress&rsquo s Petition An Excuse for So Much Writ upon My Verses Nature Calls a Council, Which Was Motion, Figure, Matter, and Life, to Advise About Making the World A World Made by Atoms The Four Principal Figured Atoms Make the Four Elements, as Square, Round, Long, and Sharp Of Airy Atoms Of Air What Atoms Make a Palsy or Apoplexy All Things Are Governed by Atoms A War with Atoms Atoms and Motion Fall Out The Agreement of Some Kind of Motion with Some Kind of Atoms Motion Directs While Atoms Dance Of the Subtlety of Motion Of Vacuum If Infinite Worlds, Infinite Centers The Infinites of Matter The Motion of Thoughts The Motion of the Blood Of Stars What Makes Echo Of Rebounds Of Light Of Light and Sight Of Many Worlds in This World A World in an Earring Several Worlds in Several Circles Clasp The Circle of the Brain Cannot Be Squared The Purchase of Poets, or a Dialogue betwixt the Poets, and Fame, and Homer&rsquo s Marriage A Dialogue betwixt Man and Nature A Dialogue betwixt the Body and the Mind A Dialogue between an Oak and a Man Cutting Him Down A Dialogue of Birds A Dialogue between Melancholy and Mirth A Dialogue betwixt Riches and Poverty A Dialogue between a Bountiful Knight and a Castle Ruined in War Of the Shortness of Man&rsquo s Life and His Foolish Ambition A Moral Discourse betwixt Man and Beast Of the Ant Of Fishes A Discourse of the Power of Devils The Clasp The Hunting of the Hare The Hunting of the Stag Of an Island The Ruin of the Island Of Poets and Their Theft Nature&rsquo s Cook Similizing the Brain to a Garden Similizing Thoughts Similizing Fancy to a Gnat A Woman Dressed by Age A Description of Shepherds and Shepherdesses Her Descending Down Witches of Lapland An Elegy on My Brother, Killed in These Unhappy Wars.