Romanticism, Gnosticism, and Neoplatonism

Book chapter

A Companion to Romantic Poetry, pp.412-424

Wiley‐Blackwell

11/26/2010

Abstract

Blake, delighting in Neoplatonic passages in the Ode

Coleridge and Shelley, and Thomas Taylor's work ‐ translating all dialogues into English

Neoplatonism, arguably ‐ having more sophisticated philosophical breadth

Neoplatonism, same atmosphere of cultural anxiety ‐ coming out of Hellenistic academy

other Gnostic image, important to his psychology ‐ flip side of evil Demiurge, the lonely soul embedded in a malign creation

particular strain of Platonism, Neoplatonism and Gnosticism ‐ their shared concept of exile of soul

Romantic Platonism, a significant topic ‐ in the early to mid twentieth

Romanticism, Gnosticism and Neoplatonism

three “isms,”Platonism, Neoplatonism and Gnosticism ‐ not identical, barely making sense in treating them as one coherent source

“supra‐mundane,” meaning “transcendent” ‐ connection with Romantic poetry, coming clear

This chapter contains sections titled: References and Further Reading

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Title: Romanticism, Gnosticism, and Neoplatonism
Creators: Laura Quinney - Brandeis University
Contributors: Charles Mahoney (Editor) - University of Connecticut
Publication Details: A Companion to Romantic Poetry, pp.412-424
Publisher: Wiley‐Blackwell; Oxford, UK
Number of pages: 13
Identifiers: 9924086639801921
Academic Unit: Interdepartmental Program in European Cultural Studies; Interdepartmental Program in Comparative Literature and Culture; Department of English
Language: English
Resource Type: Book chapter