Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page 35
... spirit , and yet something of Hermetic mysticism remains even in Paradise Lost . The demonology which Il Penseroso associates with Hermes ( rightly ) and Plato ( wrongly ) reappears not only in the ' attendant Spirit ' of Comus ...
... spirit , and yet something of Hermetic mysticism remains even in Paradise Lost . The demonology which Il Penseroso associates with Hermes ( rightly ) and Plato ( wrongly ) reappears not only in the ' attendant Spirit ' of Comus ...
Page 63
... spirit of Plato's intention , and on the need of such censorship agreed with Plato . The poet is to keep himself at his proper work , and the reader to guard himself against the mistakes of wrong poetry . How the principle would work we ...
... spirit of Plato's intention , and on the need of such censorship agreed with Plato . The poet is to keep himself at his proper work , and the reader to guard himself against the mistakes of wrong poetry . How the principle would work we ...
Page 155
... spirit are inseparable : Truly is he destitute of all worth that is not moved to love by thy gentle spirit ; which sweetly reveals itself — bounteous in pleasant looks , and the gifts that are the arrows and bow of Love there , where ...
... spirit are inseparable : Truly is he destitute of all worth that is not moved to love by thy gentle spirit ; which sweetly reveals itself — bounteous in pleasant looks , and the gifts that are the arrows and bow of Love there , where ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
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