Plato

Standard Name: Plato

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Publishing May Sinclair
She went on publishing there occasionally for sixteen years: stories, sonnets, a long narrative poem, translation, and further essays on such topics as Plato and Benjamin Jowett .
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000.
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Reception Elizabeth Carter
Joseph Highmore 's painting of her with book and laurel wreath, and John Fayram 's painting of her as a young Minerva in stylish armour with a copy of Plato , each of them associated...
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, 1997.
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Epigraphs to individual chapters range widely, beginning with the medieval Catalan poet...
Textual Features Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
This poem is written in couplets (the interspersed hymns are not by MAS ). Central characters include a Polish nobleman and his two sons (a child and a young adult), the actual Anna Nitschmann (1715-60...
Textual Features Naomi Mitchison
Her topic here is the concept of woman as property. Since the time of Plato , she argues, western civilization, or patriarchy, has rested on this foundation.
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 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, 1901.
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Textual Features Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
This epic poem, based on the work of Plato as well as on the Le Plongeons' decades of research, relates the events that ADLP believed to have occurred before Atlantis was destroyed. She thought that...
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 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 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, 1998, pp. 303-22.
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During 1839 she had worked with Leigh Hunt to bowdlerise her husband's version of Plato 's Symposium for publishing in 1840...
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, 21 Feb. 1999, p. 24.
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Fletcher, John, 1937 -, and Cheryl Bove. Iris Murdoch: A Descriptive Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography. Garland Publishing, 1994.
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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 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 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, 2009.
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