Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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... platonists , they seemed valid interpreters of Plato's thought . Plotinus especially was to influence the general understanding of Plato ; for Ficino , who set the style in Platonism , translated and commented on the Enneads as a proper ...
... platonists , they seemed valid interpreters of Plato's thought . Plotinus especially was to influence the general understanding of Plato ; for Ficino , who set the style in Platonism , translated and commented on the Enneads as a proper ...
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... Platonism . We need not , how- ever , stay longer with Plotinus and his disciples ; for Milton , in a period which thought the Enneads the very echo of Plato , pays almost no attention to pagan Neo- platonists . His few references to ...
... Platonism . We need not , how- ever , stay longer with Plotinus and his disciples ; for Milton , in a period which thought the Enneads the very echo of Plato , pays almost no attention to pagan Neo- platonists . His few references to ...
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... Platonists in the age is with him . Even when he slips on a very few occasions into suggesting that the soul enjoyed a previous existence , as in Ad Patrem 30-1 , the Christian mysticism of the time supports him . On all these counts it ...
... Platonists in the age is with him . Even when he slips on a very few occasions into suggesting that the soul enjoyed a previous existence , as in Ad Patrem 30-1 , the Christian mysticism of the time supports him . On all these counts it ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
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