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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Soul, three principles in the, 13;
effect of sensuous experience on the, 48, 50, 51;
its self-sufficiency, 61;
its union with God, 89, 100–103;
its formative energy, 113, 114;
union of, in love, 141, 143;
defined, 187, 192, 193;
where found, 188;
a self-moving substance, 188;
immortality of, 189, 190, 191, 192;
its identity after death, 195,196;
universal, identified with woman, 164;
defined, 170, 171.
“Soul’s Joy,” 144.
Spenser, Edmund, Platonism in, 3, 5, 7, 21, 22, 31, 35, 39, 117, 218,
220;
his idea of beauty, 4, 32, 33, 65, 66;
his idea of justice, 27;
his idea of temperance, 23, 24, 25;
his idea of virtue, 27, 29;
his idea of a gentleman, 29;
his idea of love, 31, 108;
his idea of heavenly love, 75;
his æsthetics, 109–117;
identifies beloved with idea of beauty, 130, 136;
on his hymns, 139;
his idea of matter, 212;
his world weariness, 216.
Stanley, Thomas, 158.
Suckling, John, 161.
Sylvanus, 6.
“Symposium,” on wisdom, 8;
its dialectic 8, 75;
on beauty of mind, 31;
on nativity of love, 68, 120;
interpreted by Ficino, 107, 140;
on generation and immortality, 119, 120.
“Teares on the Death of Mœliades,” 87, 88.
Temperance, Plato’s idea of, 12, 13, 14, 23;
Spenser’s idea of, 23, 24, 25;
and justice, 28;
connection with heavenly grace, 62.
“Temple of Love,” 156.
“Theologia Germanica,” 168.
θνμός, 13.
“Timæus,” on creation, 70;
on Creator, 110;
on flux, 211, 212.
“To Amoret. Walking in a Starry Evening,” 132.
“To Cinthia, Converted,” 159.
“To Cinthia, coying it,” 159.
“To Cloris, a Rapture,” 161.
“To Lucasta, Going beyond the Seas,” 161.
“To my Mistress in Absence,” 161.
“To the Countess of Huntingdon,” 149, 151, 163.
“To the Platonicke Pretender,” 159.
“To the World. The Perfection of Love,” 147.
Trinity, The, identified with Plotinian hypostases, 168–174;
its unity, 176.
Una, identified with σοφία, and ἀρετή, 2;
identified with truth, 2, 3;
guides Red Cross Knight to Fidelia’s school, 3;
presented as true beauty, 3–10.
“Urania,” 88.
“Valediction Forbidding Mourning,” 145.
Vaughan, Henry, his idea of love, 132, 133, 148;
his idea of Platonic love, 158;
his idea of preëxistence, 203.
Virtue, Plato’s idea of, 27;
a manifold of graces, 27;
its beauty, 127;
identified with woman, 163.
Vision, beatific, described as rest, 87;
as joy, 88.
Wisdom, the highest beauty, 4;
beauty of, 4, 10;
seen only by soul, 8;
sight of, quickening imagination, 10, 11;
identified with heavenly beauty, 73;
subject of “Hymne of Heavenly Beautie,” 73, 74.
“Wishes, The,” 138.
“World, The,” 206, 207, 208, 210.
Woman, her inward beauty, 31;
attraction of, 162;
identified as virtue, 163;
as universal soul, 164.
Zephon, 59, 60.
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Footnote 1:
Cf. Pub. of Mod. Lang. Ass. of Amer., 1897, p. 177, “Spenser’s
Imitations from Ariosto.”