Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page 11
... Comus with his bestiality resembles the Aristophanes created by Plato . The theories of the Mask , like its men and women , are such as the Platonic Spenser loved to present , but not Plato . The ' divine Philosophy ' had begun to ...
... Comus with his bestiality resembles the Aristophanes created by Plato . The theories of the Mask , like its men and women , are such as the Platonic Spenser loved to present , but not Plato . The ' divine Philosophy ' had begun to ...
Page 73
... Comus is Milton's first hedonist . Corresponding to the Lady's virtue of chastity or the rule of reason , the vice of Comus is ' luxury ' or the rule of pleasure . The image of men turned into beasts comes from Homer and Spenser , but ...
... Comus is Milton's first hedonist . Corresponding to the Lady's virtue of chastity or the rule of reason , the vice of Comus is ' luxury ' or the rule of pleasure . The image of men turned into beasts comes from Homer and Spenser , but ...
Page 75
... Comus , as we have said before , stems more from Spenser than from Plato . In Paradise Lost there is a more Platonic distinction be- ✓ tween necessary and unnecessary desires , pleasures right and wrong . Belial , a magnified Comus ...
... Comus , as we have said before , stems more from Spenser than from Plato . In Paradise Lost there is a more Platonic distinction be- ✓ tween necessary and unnecessary desires , pleasures right and wrong . Belial , a magnified Comus ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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