"Hobbes, Davenant, and Gondibert: Poetry, Philosophy, and Rhetoric in the Scientific Revolution"

Thursday, Nov. 20, 2003 @ 7:30 p.m.
Willard Smith Library

Timothy Raylor
Associate Professor of English
Carleton College

An Associate Professor of English at Carleton College, Timothy Raylor followed his Newcastle upon Tyne BA in English Literature with a D.Phil. from Oxford (Worcester College). A participant in the (Samuel) Hartlib Papers Project (Ann Arbor, CD-ROMs) and a contributor to the forthcoming Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, he has edited several collections of papers and authored numerous articles in journals including The Seventeenth Century, Renaissance Quarterly, and Renaissance Studies, a number of these focused on his ongoing work on Edmund Waller and on Thomas Hobbes. His publications further include the well-received Cavaliers, Clubs, and Literary Culture: Sir John Mennes, James Smith and the Order of the Fancy (Delaware, 1994) and The Essex House Masque of 1621: Viscount Doncaster and the Jacobean Masque (Duquesne, 2000).