Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page 36
... 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 would be named in such a list , and would again be among the writers whose works Milton had shipped from Italy when he set off for his return to England . But however much or little Milton read of Florentine Platonism , he ...
... Platonists would be named in such a list , and would again be among the writers whose works Milton had shipped from Italy when he set off for his return to England . But however much or little Milton read of Florentine Platonism , he ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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