Thomas Taylor the Platonist: Selected Writings edited by Kathleen Raine and George Mills Harper
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Thomas Taylor the Platonist: Selected Writings edited by Kathleen Raine and George Mills Harper, published in 1969. “Platonism, as Taylor saw it, was an informing principle, transmitted through a “golden chain of philosophers,” a doctrine received by Socrates and Plato from the Orphic and Pythagorean past and transmitted to the future. It emerged again and again, enriched in the School of Alexandria, in Renaissance art, in the works of Spenser, Shelley, Yeats.” Sections Include: The Hymns of Orpheus, Concerning the Cave of Nymphs, A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, Introduction to The Fable of Cupid and Psyche, etc. etc. Hardcover with original jacket with sunning to spine of jacket.