Platonism and the English imagination / edited by Anna Baldwin and Sarah Hutton.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.Description: xv, 357 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0521403081
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9/384 20
LOC classification:
  • PR127 .P57 1993
Contents:
I. Antiquity. 1. Plato and the Neoplatonists / Anne Sheppard -- II. The Early Christian Period and the Middle Ages -- 2. Introduction / Anna Baldwin. 3. The Christian Platonism of St Augustine / Janet Coleman. 4. Boethius and King Alfred / Janet Bately. 5. Chaucer's use of Neoplatonic traditions / Yasunari Takada. 6. Platonism in the Middle English Mystics / Andrew Louth -- III. The Renaissance and the Seventeenth Century -- 7. Introduction / Sarah Hutton. 8. The transformation of Platonic love in the Italian Renaissance / Jill Kraye. 9. Uses of Plato by Erasmus and More / Dominic Baker-Smith. 10. Italian Neoplatonism and the poetry of Sidney, Shakespeare, Chapman and Donne / John Roe. 11. Shakespeare on beauty, truth and transcendence / Stephen Medcalf. 12. Platonism in Spenser's Mutability Cantos / Thomas Bulger. 13. Reason, Recollection and the Cambridge Platonists / Dominic Scott. 14. Platonic ascents and descents in Milton / Anna Baldwin. 15. Platonism in some Metaphysical poets / Sarah Hutton.
IV. The Eighteenth Century -- 16. Introduction / Pat Rogers. 17. Blake and Platonism / Edward Larrissy -- V. The Nineteenth Century -- 18. Introduction / Richard Jenkyns. 19. Recollection and Recovery: Coleridge's Platonism / Keith Cunliffe. 20. Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality / A. W. Price. 21. Shelley, Plato and the political imagination / Jennifer Wallace. 22. Arnold, Plato, Socrates / M. W. Rowe. 23. Flux, rest and number: Pater's Plato / Anne Varty -- VI. The Twentieth Century -- 24. Introduction / Angela Elliott. 25. Yeats and Platonism / Brian Arkins. 26. Virginia Woolf and Plato: the Platonic background of Jacob's Room / Brenda Lyons. 27. Plato and Eliot's earlier verse / Dennis Brown. 28. The Cantos of Ezra Pound: 'to build light' / A. D. Moody. 29. Platonism in Auden / Daphne Turner. 30. Platonism in Iris Murdoch / Peter Conradi.
Summary: This is the first compendious study of the influence of Plato on the English literary tradition, showing how English writers used Platonic ideas and images within their own imaginative work.Summary: 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, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and Iris Murdoch. The book is divided chronologically, showing how every age has reconstructed Platonism to suit its own understanding of the world, and there is a bibliographical guide to further reading.Summary: Established experts and new writers over a range of disciplines have worked together to produce the first comprehensive overview of Platonism in English literature.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Antiquity. 1. Plato and the Neoplatonists / Anne Sheppard -- II. The Early Christian Period and the Middle Ages -- 2. Introduction / Anna Baldwin. 3. The Christian Platonism of St Augustine / Janet Coleman. 4. Boethius and King Alfred / Janet Bately. 5. Chaucer's use of Neoplatonic traditions / Yasunari Takada. 6. Platonism in the Middle English Mystics / Andrew Louth -- III. The Renaissance and the Seventeenth Century -- 7. Introduction / Sarah Hutton. 8. The transformation of Platonic love in the Italian Renaissance / Jill Kraye. 9. Uses of Plato by Erasmus and More / Dominic Baker-Smith. 10. Italian Neoplatonism and the poetry of Sidney, Shakespeare, Chapman and Donne / John Roe. 11. Shakespeare on beauty, truth and transcendence / Stephen Medcalf. 12. Platonism in Spenser's Mutability Cantos / Thomas Bulger. 13. Reason, Recollection and the Cambridge Platonists / Dominic Scott. 14. Platonic ascents and descents in Milton / Anna Baldwin. 15. Platonism in some Metaphysical poets / Sarah Hutton.

IV. The Eighteenth Century -- 16. Introduction / Pat Rogers. 17. Blake and Platonism / Edward Larrissy -- V. The Nineteenth Century -- 18. Introduction / Richard Jenkyns. 19. Recollection and Recovery: Coleridge's Platonism / Keith Cunliffe. 20. Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality / A. W. Price. 21. Shelley, Plato and the political imagination / Jennifer Wallace. 22. Arnold, Plato, Socrates / M. W. Rowe. 23. Flux, rest and number: Pater's Plato / Anne Varty -- VI. The Twentieth Century -- 24. Introduction / Angela Elliott. 25. Yeats and Platonism / Brian Arkins. 26. Virginia Woolf and Plato: the Platonic background of Jacob's Room / Brenda Lyons. 27. Plato and Eliot's earlier verse / Dennis Brown. 28. The Cantos of Ezra Pound: 'to build light' / A. D. Moody. 29. Platonism in Auden / Daphne Turner. 30. Platonism in Iris Murdoch / Peter Conradi.

This is the first compendious study of the influence of Plato on the English literary tradition, showing how English writers used Platonic ideas 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, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and Iris Murdoch. The book is divided chronologically, showing 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.

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