Socrates

Standard Name: Socrates

Connections

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Reception Anna Akhmatova
However, her poetry was publicly denounced in July this year, and in August the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union imposed a ban on the journals Zvezda (The Star) and Leningrad...
Textual Features Mathilde Blind
Blind celebrates Eliot's intellectual as well as her literary eminence. She gives her introductory chapter to issues of gender, referring back to Eliot's 1854 essay on this topic, Woman in France: Madame de Sablé....
Education Anne Carson
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...
Textual Features Elizabeth Cellier
Midwives, EC argues, were professionally organized hundreds if not thousands of years earlier than physicians. Her argument presses into service the Bible, classical texts, ancient and European history. She cites Exodus 1. 15-21, where midwives...
Literary responses Georgiana Chatterton
William Holman Hunt wrote that her prose was so clear that it seemed more like an original text than a translation.
“The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
The Athenæum reviewer praised this version as being the only selection suitable for a...
Education Catherine Cookson
Once married, CC set out to educate herself with books from the public library. She read the central canon in English from Shakespeare to the Romantics. She also read philosophy and found Socrates a help...
Textual Production Caroline Frances Cornwallis
CFC 's Small Books on Great Subjects this year included two titles on Greek philosophy: the first running to the time of Pericles , the second from the time of Socrates to that of Christ
Textual Production Caroline Frances Cornwallis
These fifth and sixth books, A Brief View of Greek Philosophy up to the Age of Pericles, and A Brief View of Greek Philosophy from the Age of Socrates to the Coming of Christ
Publishing Sarah Fielding
SF published by subscription her last book, a translation of Xenophon 's Memoirs of Socrates , With the Defence of Socrates.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli.
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Textual Features Hélène Gingold
'Tis not a woman's happiness quite
To be a great man's mate. I do bethink
That poor Xantippe not worse than others was.
History relateth not her griefs, but those of Socrates .
Gingold, Hélène. Abelard and Heloise. Greening.
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Textual Production Mary Hays
The publisher was Knott . The title-page quotes Socrates and Burns . The work is dedicated to the Rev. John Disney . MH 's sister, Eliza or Elizabeth, contributed two Moral Essays.
Hays, Mary. Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous. T. Knott.
prelims
Feminist Companion Archive.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Lennox
Euphemia endures by means of good counsel from the sermons of seventeenth-century Jeremy Taylor , and of a friend whom she calls her Socratina or female Socrates . While pregnant with her son Edward she...
Textual Features Amy Levy
Xantippe was the wife of Socrates , who is supposed in popular tradition to have been a scold whose obsessive housekeeping contrasted with her husband's deep philosophy. AL sets out to rehabilitate her character in...
Intertextuality and Influence Edith Lyttelton
Its chapters include Symbols and their Use, Mind Pictures, Dreams, and Knowledge of Future Events. The latter contains a discussion of foreknowledge in automatic writing and utterance, using the example of...
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.

Timeline

18 November 1477: Having set up a printing shop in Westminster...

Writing climate item

18 November 1477

Having set up a printing shop in Westminster the previous year, William Caxton published The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers; the earliest dated book printed in England.

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