Visionary Spenser and the Poetics of Early Modern Platonism
Oxford Scholarship Online August 24, 2017 Kenneth Borris
This book defines Platonism’s roles in early modern theories of literature, then turns to reappraise the Platonizing major poet Edmund Spenser. Platonic concerns and conceptions profoundly affected early modern English and continental poetics, yet the effects have had little attention. Literary Platonism energized pursuits of the sublime, and knowledge of this approach to poetry yields cogent...