Platonism and the English Imagination

Anna Baldwin editor Sarah Hutton editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:24th Mar '94

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The first comprehensive overview of the influence of Platonism on English literature.

This is the first comprehensive overview of the influence of Platonism on the English literary tradition, showing how English writers, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Wordsworth, Yeats, Pound and Iris Murdoch, used Platonic themes and images within their own imaginative work.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.

'… a fascinating introduction to the variety and richness of the tradition Plato inspired.' The Times Literary Supplement

ISBN: 9780521403085

Dimensions: 235mm x 156mm x 33mm

Weight: 725g

376 pages