Platonism in English poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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Platonism, fundamental principle of, 1, 3, 30;
its relation to ideal of holiness, 10;
its part in religious experience, 12, 71, 72, 85, 91, 92, 181, 183;
its relation to ethics of “Faerie Queene,” 26, 30;
its connection with doctrine of grace, 61;
its relation to doctrine of heavenly love, 67, 68;
its appeal to sense of beauty, 85;
its influence on erotic mysticism, 95–104;
its influence on love poetry, 104;
its relation to morality of love, 136, 137, 138;
its influence on discussion of love, 140, 141;
its three hypostases, 167;
its effect on theology, 167;
its attraction for the religious mind, 183, 193, 194, 201, 202, 216,
218, 219.
Italian, appeal of, to Spenser, 117, 118;
its æsthetic theory, 139;
its debt to Plotinus, 140;
its relation to Plato, 140;
its debt to Ficino, 140.
Plotinus, “Enneads” of, on the intelligible world, 77;
on The Good, 153, 154, 169, 181;
on the hypostases, 167;
on soul, 170, 171;
on intellect, 170;
on The One, 176, 177, 181, 194;
on inter-relation of the hypostases, 177, 180;
on matter, 179, 211;
on immortality, 187.
“Prayer for Mankind,” 184.
“Prospect,” 87.
“Psychathanasia,” idea of creation in, 70;
mysticism in, 99, 194;
immortality in, 187–193;
The One in, 197, 198, 199.
Psyche, 170, 171, 172.
“Psychozoia,” idea of the Trinity in, 168;
religious feeling in, 183.
“Pure Platonicke,” 159.
“Purple Island,” 97.
Pyrochles, 17, 18.
Randolph, Thomas, 143.
Red Cross Knight, his sight of Una’s beauty, 7, 9, 10, 11;
on Mount of Contemplation, 8, 9, 10, 11, 62;
training in House of Holiness, 10;
slandered, 14;
character of, 15;
Arthur’s relation to, 62.
“Republic,” on the good, 8;
on temperance, 13, 14, 28;
on principles within soul, 13;
on justice, 28;
on imitative art, 91 _n._ 1;
on truth and opinion, 125.
Reminiscence, theory of, in Vaughan, 203, 204–206, 207, 208;
in Plato, 203, 206.
“Retreat, The,” 203, 204, 206.
Ruggiero, 39.
Sans Loy, 23.
Satan, his love of beauty, 42, 43–46;
his sight of Eden, 43;
contemplating Adam and Eve, 43, 44, 46;
his regret for lost beauty, 58, 59, 60.
Satyrane, 3.
Sedley, Charles, 161.
“Seraphick Love,” 89.
Shakespeare, 128, 129, 134, 135.
Sidney, Algernon, 157.
Sidney, Philip, on beauty of virtue, 66;
on heavenly love, 84, 85;
on Stella and virtue, 127;
on Plato, 137.
Song—“If you refuse me once,” 161.
Song II—“It Autumn was, and on our hemisphere,” 76, 77, 79–81, 81 _n._
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Song, “To a Lady,” 158.
Song, “To Amoret,” 133.
σοφια, Una identified with, 2.
σωφροσύνη, Plato’s idea of, 12.