Contents

pp vii-ix

Notes on contributors

pp x-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xvi

I - ANTIQUITY

pp 1-2

1 - Plato and the Neoplatonists

pp 3-18

II - THE EARLY CHRISTIAN PERIOD AND THE MIDDLE AGES

pp 19-20

2 - Introduction

pp 21-26

3 - The Christian Platonism of St Augustine

pp 27-37

4 - Boethius and King Alfred

pp 38-44

5 - Chaucer's use of Neoplatonic traditions

pp 45-51

6 - Platonism in the Middle English Mystics

pp 52-64

III - THE RENAISSANCE AND THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

pp 65-66

7 - Introduction

pp 67-75

8 - The transformation of Platonic love in the Italian Renaissance

pp 76-85

9 - Uses of Plato by Erasmus and More

pp 86-99

10 - Italian Neoplatonism and the poetry of Sidney,Shakespeare, Chapman and Donne

pp 100-116

11 - Shakespeare on beauty, truth and transcendence

pp 117-125

12 - Platonism in Spenser's Mutability Cantos

pp 126-138

13 - Reason, Recollection and the Cambridge Platonists

pp 139-150

14 - Platonic ascents and descents in Milton

pp 151-162

15 - Platonism in some Metaphysical poets

pp 163-178

IV - THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

pp 179-180

16 - Introduction

pp 181-185

17 - Blake and Platonism

pp 186-198

V - THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

pp 199-200

18 - Introduction

pp 201-206

19 - Recollection and Recovery: Coleridge's Platonism

pp 207-216

20 - Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality

pp 217-228

21 - Shelley, Plato and the political imagination

pp 229-241