Tables of Contents for Platonism and the English Imagination

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Preface

Part I. Antiquity: 1. Plato and the neoplatanists Anne Shepard

Part II. The Early Christian Period and the Middle Ages: 2. Introduction Anna Baldwin

3. The Christian Platonism of St. Augustine Janet Coleman

4. Boethius and King Alfred Janet Bately

5. Chaucer's use of neoplatonic traditions Yasunari Takada

6. Platonism in the middle english mystics Andrew Louth

Part III. The Renaissance and the Seventeenth Century: 7. Introduction Sarah Hutton

8. The transformation of Platonic love in the Italian Renaissance Jill Kraye

9. Uses of Plato by Erasmus and more Dominic Baker-Smith

10. Italian Neoplatonism and the poetry of Sidney, Spenser, Chapman and Donne John Doe

11. Shakespeare on beauty, truth and transcendence Stephen Medcalfe

12. Platonism in Spenser's mutability cantos Thomas Bulger

13. Reason, recollection and the Cambridge Platonists Dominic Scott

14. Platonic ascents and descents in Milton Anna Baldwin

15. Platonism in some metaphysical poets Sarah Hutton

Part IV. The Eighteenth Century: 16. Introduction Pat Rogers

17. Blake and Platonism Edward Larrissy

Part V. The Nineteenth Century: 18. Introduction Richard Jenkyns

19. Recollection and recovery: Coleridge's Platonism Keith Cunliffe

20. Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations of immortality Anthony Price

21. Shelley, Plato and the political imagination Jennifer Wallace

22. Matthew Arnold and the spirit of Plato Mark Rowe

23. Flow, rest and number: Pater's Plato Anne Varty

Part V. The Twentieth Century: 24. Introduction Angela Elliott

25. Yeats and Platonism Brian Arkins

26. Virginia Woolf and Plato Brenda Lyons

27. Plato and Eliot's earlier verse Dennis Brown

28. The Cantos of Ezra Pound: 'to build light' David A. Moody

29. Platonism in Auden Daphne Turner

30.Platonism in Iris Murdoch Peter Conradi.