An Apology for PoetryBobbs-Merrill, 1970 - 95 pages |
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... Plato's Timaeus . 31The notion that Plato was a poet was a commonplace among Renais- sance humanists , and had some currency even in classical antiquity . For a precedent in England , see John Rainolds , Oratio , p . 41. For a fuller ...
... Plato's Timaeus . 31The notion that Plato was a poet was a commonplace among Renais- sance humanists , and had some currency even in classical antiquity . For a precedent in England , see John Rainolds , Oratio , p . 41. For a fuller ...
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... Plato , or the discourse of love in Plutarch , 389 and see whether any poet do authorize abominable filthiness , as they do . Again , a man might ask out of what commonwealth Plato did banish them . In sooth , thence where he himself ...
... Plato , or the discourse of love in Plutarch , 389 and see whether any poet do authorize abominable filthiness , as they do . Again , a man might ask out of what commonwealth Plato did banish them . In sooth , thence where he himself ...
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... Plato ( under whose lion's skin they would make an ass - like braying against poesy ) than go about to overthrow his authority ; whom , the wiser a man is , the more just cause he shall find to have in admiration ; espe- cially sith he ...
... Plato ( under whose lion's skin they would make an ass - like braying against poesy ) than go about to overthrow his authority ; whom , the wiser a man is , the more just cause he shall find to have in admiration ; espe- cially sith he ...
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