Platonism in English poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — Plato — John Shaqi
Platonism in English poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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=Columbia University=
_STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE_
PLATONISM IN ENGLISH POETRY
OF THE SIXTEENTH AND
SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
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PLATONISM IN ENGLISH POETRY
OF THE SIXTEENTH AND
SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
BY
JOHN SMITH HARRISON
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=New York=
THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, AGENTS
LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD.
1903
_All rights reserved_
COPYRIGHT, 1903,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up, electrotyped, and published September, 1903.
=Norwood Press=
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U. S. A.
TO
=My Father and My Mother=
PREFACE
This essay was presented as a dissertation for the doctorate in Columbia
University. It attempts to explain the nature of the influence of
Platonism upon English poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, exclusive of the drama. Its method is purely critical. It has
not attempted to treat the subject from the standpoint of the individual
poet, but has tried to interpret the whole body of English poetry of the
period under survey as an integral output of the spiritual thought and
life of the time.