Un círculo filosófico-literario de finales del XVII en Inglaterra: textos representativos.

Abstract

Trabajo que analiza la actividad del círculo intelectual agrupado en torno a Mary Astell; se trata normalmente de poetas, aunque también las hay que se dedican a la medicina o a la lengua: Lady Mary Chudleigh, Elizabeth Thomas, Judith Drake, Elizabeth Elstob y Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Asimismo, se estudia brevemente como miembro de pleno derecho de este grupo al clérigo y filósofo inglés John Norris, que mantuvo una importante correspondencia con Astell. Un sucinto análisis de la figura de cada miembro da paso a una muestra de su obra, consistente generalmente en un poema, representativo de sus inquietudes como componente del grupo

This paper tries to analyse the activity of the intellectual work in which Mary Astell was in; this group used to be composed by some women poets, that studied also Medicine or Language, as it may the case of some women such as Lady Mary Chudley, Elizabeth Thomas, Judith Drake, Elizabeth Elstob and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. In addition, we will try to study the figure of the philosopher and clergyman, John Norris; he is one of the members of the group, who had a very important correspondence with Mary Astell. Furthermore, we will study each member of this group, by means of the analysis of part of his works, in most of the cases a representative poem.