Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page 38
... Neoplatonism . Augustine's scale of being , or the successive emanations which descend like a ladder 10 See , for example , Philo , Special Laws 1. 327-9 . from God , is Neoplatonic , though it derives from 38 PLATO AND MILTON.
... Neoplatonism . Augustine's scale of being , or the successive emanations which descend like a ladder 10 See , for example , Philo , Special Laws 1. 327-9 . from God , is Neoplatonic , though it derives from 38 PLATO AND MILTON.
Page 39
... Neoplatonism , rather than in the works of Plotinus , Porphyry , and Proclus them- selves , we may find the source of Milton's Neoplatonic- sounding phrases on light ( e.g. , P.L. 3. 1-6 ) and the scale of being ( P.L. 5. 469-79 ) ...
... Neoplatonism , rather than in the works of Plotinus , Porphyry , and Proclus them- selves , we may find the source of Milton's Neoplatonic- sounding phrases on light ( e.g. , P.L. 3. 1-6 ) and the scale of being ( P.L. 5. 469-79 ) ...
Page 43
... Neoplatonic teachings as they did , and was no more sedulous than they to draw sharp lines between Platonism , Neoplatonism , and Christi- anity . The only distinction we can make between Milton and others in their reading of Plato ...
... Neoplatonic teachings as they did , and was no more sedulous than they to draw sharp lines between Platonism , Neoplatonism , and Christi- anity . The only distinction we can make between Milton and others in their reading of Plato ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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