Project Gutenberg 2024-02-26 Public domain in the USA. 151 Harrison, John Smith 1877 03022088 Platonism in English poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Platonism in English poetry of the 16th and 17th centuries $aNew York :$bThe Columbia university press, $c1903. Columbia University studies in comparative literature "This essay was presented as a dissertation for the doctorate in Columbia University"--Preface. Richard Tonsing, Aaron Adrignola, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Platonism in English Poetry of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" by John Smith Harrison is a scholarly treatise examining the influence of Platonic philosophy on English poetry, written during the early 20th century. The work articulates how Platonism shaped the spiritual and ethical framework of poets from that period, focusing specifically on poets like Edmund Spenser. The book delves into themes of love, beauty, holiness, and the moral ideals that stem from Platonic thought, providing insights into how these ideas were integrated into the poetic landscape of the time. The opening of the text establishes its critical approach, detailing how Harrison intends to explore Platonism not through the lens of individual poets but as a collective influence on the poetry as a whole. He introduces concepts such as the duality of earthly versus heavenly beauty, discussing how these notions manifest in Spenser's work, particularly through allegorical characters symbolizing virtues like holiness and temperance. As an example, he highlights the character Una from "The Faerie Queene," depicting her as an embodiment of Platonic wisdom and truth. Furthermore, the text comments on how the poets of the time aligned their depictions of love and beauty with Platonic ideals, framing the discussion within a broader cultural and historical context. This scholarly examination serves to illuminate the intricate ways in which philosophy informed poetic expression during a pivotal era in English literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/platonisminengli00harr 20230411084814harrison 1903 us Reading ease score: 61.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Thesis (Ph. D.) Renaissance -- England Plato -- Influence English poetry -- Greek influences Neoplatonism in literature PR Text Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: British Literature 498379 2025-07-29T04:42:50.225334 text/html 457437 2024-02-26T19:17:00 text/html 412537 2025-07-29T04:43:01.247290 application/epub+zip 417963 2025-07-29T04:42:52.989382 application/epub+zip 296072 2025-07-29T04:42:51.533358 application/epub+zip 983687 2025-07-29T04:43:06.205281 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 955674 2025-07-29T04:42:59.793341 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 339020 2025-07-29T04:42:48.258339 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 319040 2024-02-26T19:17:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17482 2025-07-29T04:43:06.384257 application/rdf+xml 15354 2025-07-29T04:42:51.946341 image/jpeg 2126 2025-07-29T04:42:51.731344 image/jpeg 1149678 2025-07-29T04:42:50.276353 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog