“The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Plato
Standard Name: Plato
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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... |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Carter | Joseph Highmore
painted EC
in about 1738, holding a book in her hand and about to be crowned with a laurel wreath. This picture seems to be related to Samuel Johnson
's poem To Eliza... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Carter | 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... |
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 Production | Georgiana Chatterton | GC
published her translated Selections from the Works of Plato; on this day William Holman Hunt
thanked her for his complimentary copy. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1796 (1862): 428 |
Education | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | 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... |
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 | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances, Lady Norton | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Francis | |
Occupation | Margaret Fuller | The Conversations were not without their critics, however. Maria Weston Chapman
, head of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
, criticised them for failing to address abolition explicitly. Chapman may have influenced the opinion which... |
politics | Mary Gawthorpe | It was apparently MG
who began the action, when Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
refused to meet the suffrage deputation and she sprang on one of the sacred velvet chairs, and began to speak. Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge. 127 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Gilding | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Bruce Glasier | KBG
was influenced early in her writing career by authors such as Walt Whitman
, Edward Carpenter
, and Plato
. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited. 69 |
Timeline
17 February 1600: Giordano Bruno, a Neapolitan philosopher...
Building item
17 February 1600
Giordano Bruno
, a Neapolitan philosopher and former Dominican friar, was burned by the Inquisition
, apparently less for his support of Copernicus
than for his Plato
nist and Pantheistic thinking.
February 1893: Walter Pater published a selection of lectures...
Writing climate item
February 1893
Walter Pater
published a selection of lectures and essays, Plato
and Platonism.
Texts
Plato,. Selections from the Works of Plato. Translator Chatterton, Georgiana, Richard Bentley, 1862.
Plato,. The Symposium on Love. Translator Shelley, Percy Bysshe, Peter Pauper Press.