Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page 39
... myths of Plato , although they took the myths from Neoplatonists and he directly from Plato . The ordering of ... myth , and long before Dante it had become a part of Christian lore . So also with the accounts of the after - life ...
... myths of Plato , although they took the myths from Neoplatonists and he directly from Plato . The ordering of ... myth , and long before Dante it had become a part of Christian lore . So also with the accounts of the after - life ...
Page 137
... myth which makes a beloved person an embodiment of the Ideas serves Milton as a poetic device in various early poems , perhaps most strikingly in the lines on A Fair Infant ( 53-6 ) : Or wert thou Mercy that sweet smiling Youth ? Or ...
... myth which makes a beloved person an embodiment of the Ideas serves Milton as a poetic device in various early poems , perhaps most strikingly in the lines on A Fair Infant ( 53-6 ) : Or wert thou Mercy that sweet smiling Youth ? Or ...
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... myth of the two halves seeking , through love , reunion into an original whole , a myth destined to become famous in itself , and , through Aristotle's conversion of it , into a definition of the friend as ' another self . ' Agathon ...
... myth of the two halves seeking , through love , reunion into an original whole , a myth destined to become famous in itself , and , through Aristotle's conversion of it , into a definition of the friend as ' another self . ' Agathon ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
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