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

Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

xv, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Dillons

Antiquity. Plato and the Neoplatonists / Anne Sheppard -- The early Christian period and the middle ages. Introduction / Anna Baldwin ; The Christian Platonism of St. Augustine / Janet Coleman ; Boethius and King Alfred / Janet Bately ; Chaucer's use of Neoplatonic traditions / Yasunari Takada ; Platonism in the middle English mystics / Andrew Louth -- The Renaissance and the seventeenth century. Introduction / Sarah Hutton ; The transformation of Platonic love in the Italian renaissance / Jill Kraye ; Uses of Plato by Erasmus and More / Dominic Baker-Smith ; Italian Neoplatonism and the poetry of Sidney, Shakespeare, Chapman, and Donne / John Roe ; Shakespeare on beauty, truth and transcendence / Stephen Medcalf ; Platonism in Spenser's Mutability Cantos / Thomas Bulger ; Reason, recollection and the Cambridge Platonists / Dominic Scott ; Platonic ascents and descents in Milton / Anna Baldwin ; Platonism in some

metaphysical poets / Sarah Hutton -- The eighteenth century. Introduction / Pat Rogers ; Blake and Platonism / Edward Larrissy -- The nineteenth century. Introduction / Richard Jenkyns ; Recollection and recovery: Coleridge's Platoism / Keith Cunliffe ; Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimatations of Immortality / A. W. Price ; Shelley, Plato and the political imagination / Jennifer Wallace ; Arnold, Plato, Socrates / M. W. Rowe ; Flux, rest and number: Pater's Plato / Anne Varty -- The twentieth century. Introduction / Angela Elliott ; Yeats and Platonism / Brian Arkins ; Virginia Woolf and Plato: the Platonic background of Jacob's Room / Brenda Lyons ; Plato and Eliot's ealier verse / Dennis Brown ; The Cantos of Ezra Pound: 'to build light' / A. D. Moody ; Platonism in Auden / Daphne Turner ; Platonism in Iris Murdoch / Peter Conradi.

Includes bibliographic references (p. 343-350) and index