Platonism and the English Imagination

Anna Baldwin, Sarah Hutton, Senior Lecturer School of Humanities Sarah Hutton — 1994

This is the first comprehensive overview of the influence of Platonism on the English literary tradition, showing how English writers, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Wordsworth, Yeats, Pound and Iris Murdoch, used Platonic themes and images within their own imaginative work.