| Description |
xv, 357 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-350) and index. |
| Contents |
Antiquity: Plato and the Neoplatonists / Anne Sheppard -- The early Christian period and the middle ages: Introduction / Anna Baldwin -- The Christian Platonism of St. Augustine / Janet Coleman - - Boethius and King Alfred / Janet Bately -- Chaucer's use of Neoplatonic traditions / Yasunari Takada -- Platonism in the middle English mystics / Andrew Louth -- The Renaissance and the seventeenth century: Introduction / Sarah Hutton -- The transformation of Platonic love in the Italian renaissance / Jill Kraye -- Uses of Plato by Erasmus and More / Dominic Baker-Smith -- Italian Neoplatonism and the poetry of Sidney, Shakespeare, Chapman, and Donne / John Roe -- Shakespeare on beauty, truth and transcendence / Stephen Medcalf -- Platonism in Spenser's Mutability Cantos / Thomas Bulger - - Reason, recollection and the Cambridge Platonists / Dominic Scott - - Platonic ascents and descents in Milton / Anna Baldwin. |
|
Platonism in some metaphysical poets / Sarah Hutton -- The eighteenth century: Introduction / Pat Rogers -- Blake and Platonism / Edward Larrissy -- The nineteenth century: Introduction / Richard Jenkyns -- Recollection and recovery: Coleridge's Platoism / Keith Cunliffe -- Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimatations of Immortality / A. W. Price -- Shelley, Plato and the political imagination / Jennifer Wallace -- Arnold, Plato, Socrates / M. W. Rowe -- Flux, rest and number: Pater's Plato / Anne Varty -- The twentieth century: Introduction / Angela Elliott -- Yeats and Platonism / Brian Arkins -- Virginia Woolf and Plato: the Platonic background of Jacob's Room / Brenda Lyons -- Plato and Eliot's ealier verse / Dennis Brown -- The Cantos of Ezra Pound 'to build light' / A. D. Moody -- Platonism in Auden / Daphne Turner -- Platonism in Iris Murdoch / Peter Conradi. |
| Subject |
Plato -- Influence.
|
|
English literature -- History and criticism.
|
|
English literature -- Greek influences.
|
|
Philosophy, Ancient, in literature.
|
|
Platonists -- Great Britain.
|
|
Neoplatonism.
|
| Added Author |
Baldwin, Anna P.
|
|
Hutton, Sarah, 1948-
|
| ISBN |
0521403081 |
|
