{"product_id":"platonism-and-the-english-imagination-paperback-9780521021685","title":"Platonism and the English Imagination (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521021685","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePlatonism and the English Imagination\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first comprehensive overview of the influence of Platonism on English literature.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnna Baldwin (Edited by), Sarah Hutton (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521021685, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 November 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages, 1 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.7 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.57 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… a fascinating introduction to the variety and richness of the tradition Plato inspired.' The Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Antiquity: 1. Plato and the neoplatonists Anne Shepard\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Early Christian Period and the Middle Ages: 2. Introduction Anna Baldwin\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Christian Platonism of St. Augustine Janet Coleman\u003cbr\u003e 4. Boethius and King Alfred Janet Bately\u003cbr\u003e 5. Chaucer's use of neoplatonic traditions Yasunari Takada\u003cbr\u003e 6. Platonism in the middle english mystics Andrew Louth\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Renaissance and the Seventeenth Century: 7. Introduction Sarah Hutton\u003cbr\u003e 8. The transformation of Platonic love in the Italian Renaissance Jill Kraye\u003cbr\u003e 9. Uses of Plato by Erasmus and more Dominic Baker-Smith\u003cbr\u003e 10. Italian neoplatonism and the poetry of Sidney, Spenser, Chapman and Donne John Doe\u003cbr\u003e 11. Shakespeare on beauty, truth and transcendence Stephen Medcalfe\u003cbr\u003e 12. Platonism in Spenser's mutability cantos Thomas Bulger\u003cbr\u003e 13. Reason, recollection and the Cambridge Platonists Dominic Scott\u003cbr\u003e 14. Platonic ascents and descents in Milton Anna Baldwin\u003cbr\u003e 15. Platonism in some metaphysical poets Sarah Hutton\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Eighteenth Century: 16. Introduction Pat Rogers\u003cbr\u003e 17. Blake and Platonism Edward Larrissy\u003cbr\u003e Part V. The Nineteenth Century: 18. Introduction Richard Jenkyns\u003cbr\u003e 19. Recollection and recovery: Coleridge's Platonism Keith Cunliffe\u003cbr\u003e 20. Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality Anthony Price\u003cbr\u003e 21. Shelley, Plato and the political imagination Jennifer Wallace\u003cbr\u003e 22. Matthew Arnold and the spirit of Plato Mark Rowe\u003cbr\u003e 23. Flow, rest and number: Pater's Plato Anne Varty\u003cbr\u003e Part V. The Twentieth Century: 24. Introduction Angela Elliott\u003cbr\u003e 25. Yeats and Platonism Brian Arkins\u003cbr\u003e 26. Virginia Woolf and Plato Brenda Lyons\u003cbr\u003e 27. Plato and Eliot's earlier verse Dennis Brown\u003cbr\u003e 28. The Cantos of Ezra Pound: 'to build light' David A. Moody\u003cbr\u003e 29. Platonism in Auden Daphne Turner\u003cbr\u003e 30. 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