Plato

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...

The Destiny of Humanity discusses works by Aristotle , Plato , Kant , William Whewell , and Frederick Faber .

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.

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...

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...

She found this work on illegible and sometimes unfinished manuscripts confusing and tantalising. During 1839 she had worked with Leigh Hunt to bowdlerise her husband's version of Plato 's Symposium for publishing in 1840...

PBS made (and Mary Shelley transcribed) the first English translation of Plato 's Symposium to attempt even approximate honesty about its homosexual content.

GC published her translated Selections from the Works of Plato; on this day William Holman Hunt thanked her for his complimentary copy.

She resisted pressure from Robin Baird-Smith to change the title, which refers to Plato 's Socratic dialogue on the nature of love.

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...

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.

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...

This novel has an epigraph from John Ford 's The Lover's Melancholy, 1629, about the storms and turmoil of human life. Epigraphs to individual chapters range widely, beginning with the medieval Catalan poet...

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...

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...