Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 357 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
Edition:
1993
ISBN:
9780511553806
Content:
This is the first compendious study of the influence of Platonism on the English literary tradition, showing how English writers used Platonic themes and images within their own imaginative work. Source texts include Plato's Dialogues, and the writings of Neoplatonists and the early Christians who were largely responsible for assimilating Platonic ideas into a Christian culture; and there are essays on more than thirty English authors from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, including Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Wordsworth, Yeats, Pound and Iris Murdoch. Each chronological section has its own introduction to highlight how every age has reconstructed Platonism to suit its own understanding of the world, and there is a bibliographical guide to further reading. Established experts and new writers over a range of disciplines have worked together to produce the first comprehensive overview of Platonism in English literature
Content:
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
Content:
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 Platonism / Keith Cunliffe ; Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations 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
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521403085
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521021685
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Platonism and the English imagination Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 1994 ISBN 0521403081
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
,
Philosophy
Keywords:
Platonismus
;
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511553806
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Author information:
Hutton, Sarah 1948-
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