Platonism in English poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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Beauty, in Ficino, 109, 112, 113, 114;
in Plato, 34, 35, 220;
in Milton, 41;
in Spenser, 35,38, 41, 109, 111, 112, 113, 220, 221.
of beloved, its relation to absolute beauty, in George Daniel, 131;
in Ficino, 115;
in Shakespeare, 128, 134, 135;
in Spenser, 32–34, 115, 130, 136.
earthly, 79, 80.
heavenly, a fundamental doctrine of Platonism, 1, 103;
identified as wisdom, 73;
as beauty of intelligible world, 76.
“Beauty,” 86.
Beelzebub, 58.
Being, true, 98.
Belphœbe, 5.
Bower of Bliss, 21.
Boyle, Robert, 158.
Bradamante, 39.
Britomart, 35, 36–38.
“Cælica,” 138.
Calidore, 46.
“Cantos of Mutabilitie,” 217.
Carew, Thomas, 158.
Cartwright, William, 162.
Charles I, 156.
Charleton, Walter, 157.
Chastity, Milton’s idea of, 47, 48, 54, 55, 56.
Christ, mystical love of, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99;
as true being, 98;
Milton’s idea of, 180, 181.
“Christ’s Triumph after Death,” 100–103.
Cleveland, John, 161, 162.
“Colin Clouts Come Home Againe,” 122.
“Commentarium in Convivium,” on love, 107, 108, 115, 116, 121;
on beauty, 109, 110, 112, 113, 114;
its interpretation of Plato, 140.
“Comus,” effect of sensuality on soul taught in, 49;
chastity in, 48, 49, 56;
doctrine of grace in, 63, 64;
parallelism with “Phædo,” 49, _n._ 1.
Comus, his attempts on The Lady, 51–54;
his character, 53.
“Corruption,” 205, 206.
“Court-Platonicke,” 159.
Cowley, Abraham, 161, 162.
Craig, Alexander, 138.
Crashaw, Richard, 97, 99, 138.
Daniel, George, 131, 158.
Daniel, Samuel, 138.
D’Avenant, William, 156.
Diodati, Charles, 41.
Donne, John, mysticism in, 94;
love in, 141, 144, 145, 149, 51, 152, 153, 154;
his idea of woman, 163, 164, 165.
Drayton, Michael, 125, 138.
“Dream, The,” 153.
Drummond, William, his idea of God, 174, 175, 176, 183;
his idea of love, 82, 88, 132;
his idea of heavenly love, 76, 81;
appeal of Platonism to, 76;
his idea of happiness, 86;
his idea of rest, 87.
Dryden, John, 165.
Duessa, 66.
“Ecstacy, The,” 141.
Elissa, 22.
“Enneads,” see under Plotinus.
“Epithalamion,” 31, 32, 33.
“Epithalamy,” 162.
“Epode,” 151.
Eve, 44, 45.
“Faerie Queene,” Christianity and Platonic idealism in, 1;
its teaching on holiness, 1;
its teaching on temperance, see under Guyon;
Platonic ethics in, 26, 39;
its allegorical scheme, 26;
its unity, 29, 30;
beauty of mind in, 33;
function of grace in, 62, 63.
“Fever, A,” 164.
Ficino, see under “Commentarium in Convivium.”
Fidelia, 3.
Fletcher, Giles, 100, 101, 102, 103.
Fletcher, Phineas, 83, 97.
Florimell, 66.
“Forerunners, The,” 90.
“Friendship in Absence,” 161.
Furor, 16.
“Garden of Adonis,” 213–216.