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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 | |
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 |
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 |