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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God, as lover of His own beauty, 68, 69;
as The Good, 70, 86;
union of soul with, 100–103;
as “Idea Beatificall,” 102;
as source of beauty, 109, 180;
as Creator, 110;
and the three Platonian hypostases, 172;
as king, 174, 175, 176;
as philosophical principle, 176–178.
Good, The, 169.
“Gorgias,” on temperance, 24.
Grace, doctrine of, its connection with ideal of holiness, 61–63;
its connection with ideal of chastity, 63, 64;
its connection with ideal of temperance, 62, 63;
represented by Arthur, 62.
Greville, Fulke, 138.
Guyon, his adventures, 13;
his struggles with wrath, 14–18;
his struggles with sensual desire, 18–21;
character of his life, 24;
his praise of beauty of mind, 34;
his relation to Arthur, 62.
Habington, William, 147.
Heaven, 92.
Henrietta, Maria, 156, 157.
Herbert, Edward, Lord Herbert, 146, 159.
Herbert, George, 71, 89, 90, 93.
Heywood, Thomas, 156.
Holiness, Platonism and, 10;
its connection with the doctrine of grace, 62.
Holy Spirit, identified with Psyche, 170.
Howell, James, 155, 156, 157.
Hudibras, 22.
“Hymn of Fairest Fair, An,” 174–179, 183, 184.
“Hymne in Honour of Beautie, An,” 106, 109–117, 118.
“Hymne in Honour of Love, An,” 105, 107, 108, 118, 121.
“Hymne of Heavenly Love,” 68, 69, 73, 74, 75, 76, 95, 96.
“Hymne of Heavenly Beautie,” 185, 186.
“Hymne of True Happiness, An,” 86.
Hypostases, the Plotinian, 167, 176, 177.
Idea, Platonic notion of, 95;
connection with mysticism, 95, 101;
term used as title, 138.
“Idea Beatificall,” 102.
Intellect, The, identified with God, 175;
defined, 170, 180;
identified with Christ, 170.
Intelligible world, 77, 78, 81.
“In the Glorious Epiphanie of Our Lord God,” 97–99.
Ithuriel, 59.
Jonson, 122, 123, 151.
“Jordan,” 91.
Joy, in religious experience, 85;
and the beatific vision, 88.
Justice, Spenser’s conception of, 27, 28;
Plato’s conception, 28;
identical with temperance, 28.
Lady, The, in “Comus,” effect of spells of Comus on, 53;
her response to Comus, 54;
her conception of chastity, 54, 56.
Linche, Richard, 138.
Love, nativity of the god of, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124;
treatment of, in Donne, 149–151, 152–155;
in Drayton, 125, 126;
in Ficino, 107, 108, 115, 116;
in Habington, 147;
in Jonson, 123, 124, 125, 151;
in Milton, 41, 47, 82, 83;
in Plato, 34, 35, 120;
in Spenser, 34, 107–109, 115–118, 120, 122;
in Vaughan, 132, 133.
earthly, 83, 88.
heavenly, defined, 67, 72, 73, 84;
in Spenser, 75;
in Drummond, 81.
Platonic, its rise at court, 155, 156;
defined, 155, 156, 160;
ridiculed, 156, 157;
described Lord Herbert, 159, 160;
in Stanley, 158;
in Vaughan, 158;
its immorality, 158.
“Love,” 71.
“Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly,” 124, 125.
Lovelace, Richard, 161.
“Love’s Growth,” 152.
“Love’s Innocence,” 158.