First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book tackles the problematic relationship between Platonic philosophy and Romantic poetry, between the intellect and the emotions. Drawing on contemporary

This book tackles the problematic relationship between Platonic philosophy and Romantic poetry, between the intellect and the emotions. Drawing on contemporary

This is the first compendious study of the influence of Plato on the English literary tradition, showing how English writers used Platonic ideas and images with

This book studies and articulates the emergence from the poetical subtext of six major English romantics of "the androgynous sublime", a mode that conflates the