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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 | 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 | 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 |
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... |
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