In his essay, John Locke sets out his theory of knowledge and how we acquire it. He shows how all our ideas are grounded in human experience and analyses the extent of our knowledge of ourselves and the world. This new abridgement uses P. H. Nidditch´s authoritative text to make an accessible edition of Locke´s masterpiece.
This is the first comprehensive collection of English Renaissance literary criticism to appear for nearly a century. Brian Vickers has brought together a wide-ranging selection of texts, some well-known (such as Sir Philip Sidney´s Apology for Poetry, the most brilliant critical essay of the whole Renaissance, here given complete), some little-known (Dudley North´s account of Metaphysical poetry), and one being printed for the first time (John Ford´s elegy on John Fletcher).