Platonism for the Iron Age: An Essay on the Literary Universal (Inside Selfhood And History) - Hardcover

Frederic Will

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 144385820X ISBN 13: 9781443858205

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

A study of Platonic idealism as it can play out in daily life. It buttresses its defense of the Platonic through reference both to Classical Greek and eighteenth-century thought, and to language in the pressure cooker of the American street.

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Review:

"Beautifully balanced reflective poems"-On A Wedge of Words, 1963, London Times Literary Supplement"A lone genius, a huge bombshell of gravity"-Willis Barnstone, Indiana University, on Will's The Long Poem in the Age of Twitter, 2011"A stimulating and provocative work"-On Literature Inside Out, 1966, Poetry (Chicago)"Will is of that academic breed which lives with literature and not off it"-On The King's Flute (translation of epic by Kostes Palamas), 1966, Modern Language Journal

About the Author:

Frederic Will is an independent scholar who divides his time between Iowa and Ughelli, Delta State, Nigeria. He has written critical and autobiographical texts, travel reports, fiction and poetry, and studies in the operation of ideas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 144385820X
• ISBN 13: 9781443858205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160