Platonism in English poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / by John Smith Harrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrison, John Smith, 1877-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato--Influence.

Plato.

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Neoplatonism in literature.

Physical Description:

xi, 235 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1980.

Summary:

This book attempts to explain the nature of the influence of Platonism on English poetry, exclusive of drama, of the 16th and 17th centuries. The subject is not treated from the standpoint of the individual poet but, rather, the whole body of English poetry of the period is interpreted as an integral output of the spiritual thought and life of the time.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis, Columbia, 1903.

Reprint of the 1903 ed. published by the Columbia University Press, New York.

Bibliography: pages 223-227.

ISBN:

0313223742

OCLC:

6085493