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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      15 December 2009
      24 March 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511553806
      9780521403085
      9780521021685
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511553806
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.725kg, 376 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 376 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, English Literature: General Interest
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    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.

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    ‘… a fascinating introduction to the variety and richness of the tradition Plato inspired.’

    Source: The Times Literary Supplement

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