This is often the 1st compendious examine of the impact of Plato at the English literary culture, displaying how English writers used Platonic principles and photographs inside of their very own ingenious paintings. confirmed specialists and new writers have labored jointly to supply person essays on greater than thirty English authors, together with Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Wordsworth, T. S. Eliot, Auden and Iris Murdoch; and the ebook is split chronologically, displaying how all ages has reconstructed Platonism to fit its personal knowing of the realm.
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