Platonism and the English imagination /
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Baldwin, Anna P. Hutton, Sarah, 1948- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. Antiquity
- 1. Plato and the neoplatonists
- Part II. The Early Christian Period and the Middle Ages
- 2. Introduction
- 3. The Christian Platonism of St. Augustine
- 4. Boethius and King Alfred
- 5. Chaucer's use of neoplatonic traditions
- 6. Platonism in the middle english mystics
- Part III. The Renaissance and the Seventeenth Century
- 7. Introduction
- 8. The transformation of Platonic love in the Italian Renaissance
- 9. Uses of Plato by Erasmus and more Dominic
- 10. Italian neoplatonism and the poetry of Sidney, Spenser, Chapman and Donne
- 11. Shakespeare on beauty, truth and transcendence
- 12. Platonism in Spenser's mutability cantos
- 13. Reason, recollection and the Cambridge Platonists
- 14. Platonic ascents and descents in Milton
- 15. Platonism in some metaphysical poets
- Part IV. The Eighteenth Century
- 16. Introduction
- 17. Blake and Platonism
- Part V. The Nineteenth Century
- 18. Introduction
- 19. Recollection and recovery: Coleridge's Platonism
- 20. Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality
- 21. Shelley, Plato and the political imagination
- 22. Matthew Arnold and the spirit of Plato
- 23. Flow, rest and number: Pater's Plato
- Part V. The Twentieth Century
- 24. Introduction
- 25. Yeats and Platonism
- 26. Virginia Woolf and Plato
- 27. Plato and Eliot's earlier verse
- 28. The Cantos of Ezra Pound: 'to build light'
- 29. Platonism in Auden
- 30. Platonism in Iris Murdoch