Plato

MR was confirmed as an Anglican , and enjoyed church ceremonies, but it was Plato 's belief in the individual which provided her with a lifelong ethical code. Later in life she discovered the works...

She dedicated this book to Myles Burnyeat , her husband, whom she thanks for encouragement, criticism, and rubbing my nose in philosophers; for help with child care, books, lucidity, and Plato . A...

Virginia read Aeschylus , Homer , Sophocles , and Plato , among others, with Clara Pater. In 1902, however, the Cambridge-educated Janet Case , who was a feminist as well as a classicist, took over...

In the early 1780s she was reading such challenging authors as Milton , Plato , Plutarch , and Aristotle .

Despite her distaste for the survey courses and canonical English poets, AC eventually re-enrolled at the University of Toronto in 1970 , in the classics program. As an undergraduate she was particularly drawn to passionate...

FR denied that she knew Latin, yet she used Latin tags in her letters. As an adult she worked persistently at self-education. Her commonplace-book contains her reading notes on Plato , Aristotle , Pliny ,...

Later she became interested in Plato . In 1886 she was one of a group of women who began Greek classes at the Hampstead home of poet and scholar William Cory , her longtime friend...

Late in the volume come some poems in jaunty quatrains. The speaker in The Search, having vainly pursued truth, first in the countryside, then in cities, courts, the army, etc., then thought I was...

KBG was influenced early in her writing career by authors such as Walt Whitman , Edward Carpenter , and Plato .

FLN 's works, like the volume already published of Gethin, are very largely composed of quotations. Norton addresses this issue in The Applause of Virtue, in her prefatory To the Reader, which opens...

Very much like the tours and lectures Harrison began giving this decade, her published text offers vivid, dramatic descriptions of the culture under examination. Her oral and written works are similar in other ways: in...

Dedicated to the author's companion and fellow writer Mary Robinson , this volume is another collection of essays, some previously published. Here Lee begins to dismiss the moral implications and social conditions within and around...

Carter's poem To Miss Lynch claims (not for the only time) Katherine Philips as the model for her own writing. Philips's spotless verse with genuine force exprest / The brightest passion of the human breast...

DL takes her title from Plato 's allegory about cave-dwellers who never see the outside world, but believe they can understand it from observing the shadows thrown on the walls of their cave. She applies...

Mondisfield Hall, depicted here as it was during the Restoration, is based on Badmondisfield (or Badmondesfield) Hall, an Elizabethan moated manor at Wickhambrook in Suffolk, where as a girl EL used to stay with...