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Plato and the English Romantics
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Plato and the English Romantics tackles the problematic relationship between Platonic philosophy and Romantic poetry, between the intellect (Apollo) and the emotions (Dionysus). It looks above all at the daemonic `mania' or passionate intensity, where both philosophical and poetic discourse originate.Plato's paradoxical choice of a dramatic (Dionysian) logos reminds us of the ritualistic and religious origins of both philosophy and poetry. We see that the concern with self-knowledge for the purpose of transcending the self is common to both Platonic and Romantic texts, and that Plato's recognition of `the philosophical frenzy' finds an echo in Wordsworth's definition of passion as `highest reason' and Coleridge's evocation to `some Sun that shall unite Light and Warmth'. These indications that the presence of the `heat' of feeling is inseparable from the `light' of thought demonstrates that the emotive and the intellectual faculties are not necessarily at odds, but can be united in the `passionate mind', capable of producing either philosophy or poetry.
Plato and the English Romantics shows that dialogue between `thinking' and `poetizing' is possible. Kabitoglou draws on contemporary critical theory, notably hermeneutics and deconstruction, to give many new insights into Platonic and Romantic texts.
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- Academic > Literature > English literature > Poetry > By period
- Academic > Literature > Classical literature > Greek literature > Literary history
- Academic > Literature > English literature > Literary history and criticism
- Academic > Literature > English literature > Criticism
- Academic > Literature > English literature > 19th century, 1770/1800-1890/1900
- Academic > Languages and Linguistics > Greek philology and language
- History > Ancient > Greece
- History > Ancient > Rome
- Literary Collections > Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- Poetry
- Philosophy
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9781134959600
9781134959594
9780415036023
9780203405611
0203405617