Plato

Standard Name: Plato

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
The Destiny of Humanity discusses works by Aristotle , Plato , Kant , William Whewell , and Frederick Faber .
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray.
146-7
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Seamus Heaney
In these lectures SH again concerned himself closely with the poet's obligations to society and to humankind. The first lecture, from which the 1995 volume is titled, sets out to show how poetry's existence at...
Textual Production Anne Dacier
Contemporary witnesses suggested that the couple had also worked together on Sophocles , Euripides , Plutarch , Epictetus , and Plato . According to recent critics, their sharing of their scholarly work without compromising the...
Textual Production Iris Murdoch
Andrew Cruikshank spoke as Socrates and Greg Hicks as Plato . The pair to this piece was Above the Gods: A Dialogue about Religion; the two were published as Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues, 1986.
Textual Production Mary Shelley
When Mary first met Percy Shelley , he was about to embark on serious publication. Between 1813 and 1821, he published several major works, including Queen Mab, Epipsychidion, The Cenci, and his...
Textual Production Anne Bradstreet
His long, descriptive title begins: The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung up in America; or, Severall Poems, Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight, before going to enumerate the major poems...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
She found this work on illegible and sometimes unfinished manuscripts confusing and tantalising.
Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Multivocality in Mary Shelley’s Unfinished Memoirs of Her Father”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 3, pp. 303-22.
305
During 1839 she had worked with Leigh Hunt to bowdlerise her husband's version of Plato 's Symposium for publishing in 1840...
Textual Production Percy Bysshe Shelley
PBS made (and Mary Shelley transcribed) the first English translation of Plato 's Symposium to attempt even approximate honesty about its homosexual content.
Gonda, Caroline. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Lodore</span> and Fanny Derham’s Story”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, pp. 329-44.
337
Textual Production Georgiana Chatterton
GC published her translated Selections from the Works of Plato; on this day William Holman Hunt thanked her for his complimentary copy.
“The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1796 (1862): 428
Textual Production Muriel Spark
She resisted pressure from Robin Baird-Smith to change the title, which refers to Plato 's Socratic dialogue on the nature of love.
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
491, 495-6
Textual Production Iris Murdoch
IM published a book of philosophy, The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists, which extended her explorations into beauty, art, and reality.
Conradi, Peter J. “A Literary Witness to Good and Evil”. Guardian Weekly, Guardian Publications, p. 24.
24
Fletcher, John, and Cheryl Bove. Iris Murdoch: A Descriptive Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography. Garland Publishing.
39
Textual Production Frances Cornford
Frances Cornford assisted with her husband 's translation of Plato 's Republic. He dedicated it to her, in gratitude for many hours patiently given to the amendment of this version by one whose sense...
Textual Features Rosamund Marriott Watson
Her introduction demonstrates a good knowledge of ancient Greek poetry and its publication history. In addition to selections by Plato and Theocritus , the book includes single poems by Sappho and Erinna .
Watson, Rosamund Marriott, editor. Selections from the Greek Anthology. W. Scott.
xi-xii
Textual Features Iris Murdoch
In this text, she sets out a Platonic conception of art derived from Plato 's Philebus, Phaedrus, and Symposium which explains his rejection of poets in his Republic.
Textual Features Mary Shelley
This novel has an epigraph from John Ford 's The Lover's Melancholy, 1629, about the storms and turmoil of human life.
Shelley, Mary. Lodore. Editor Vargo, Lisa, Broadview.
47
Epigraphs to individual chapters range widely, beginning with the medieval Catalan poet...

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17 February 1600: Giordano Bruno, a Neapolitan philosopher...

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17 February 1600

Giordano Bruno , a Neapolitan philosopher and former Dominican friar, was burned by the Inquisition , apparently less for his support of Copernicus than for his Plato nist and Pantheistic thinking.

February 1893: Walter Pater published a selection of lectures...

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February 1893

Walter Pater published a selection of lectures and essays, Plato and Platonism.

Texts

Plato,. Selections from the Works of Plato. Translator Chatterton, Georgiana, Richard Bentley, 1862.
Plato,. The Symposium on Love. Translator Shelley, Percy Bysshe, Peter Pauper Press.