Davies, Sir John | Elias Hershey Sneath (essay date 1903)
Elias Hershey Sneath (essay date 1903)
SOURCE: Sneath, Elias Hershey. “Of Human Knowledge.” In Philosophy in Poetry: A Study of Sir John Davies's Poem “Nosece Teipsum,” pp. 49-62. 1903. Reprint. Freeport: Books for Libraries Press, 1970.
[In the following essay, Sneath argues that Nosce Teipsum is a didactic poem and discusses Davies's philosophy in relation to the theology of his time.]
Having thus briefly studied the history of Davies and the sources of influence upon his thinking, let us next turn to a consideration of his philosophical poem. As has been suggested already, his most elaborate and important poem is Nosce Teipsum. This work is a unique production, presenting as it does, in a formal manner, a complete rational psychology or philosophy of mind in verse. It is, therefore, pre-eminently a didactic poem—the aim being to present systematically the author's speculations on the profound problems of the...
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