/lit/ - Literature

>>19620640
The Metaphysical Poets of Britain were heavily Platonic.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50713/platonic-love-56d22dfe82c60

Also, I recommend this book.

>>19620658
Like John Donne and Andrew Marvell, right?

>>19620695
Yes, I'd recommend purchasing an anthology if you're unfamiliar with them. They followed on from Shakespeare's later 'knotty' verse, especially Donne. They triggered the Augustans (one of literature's low points), so that's another plus.

>>19620713
I have an Everyman's Library edition of Donne's English poems but I've only read a couple of poems. He's great. By Marvell I've only read his most famous piece. Will try to get an anthology because those are the only names I know. Eliot mentions something about Donne and how he influenced him, particularly in use of language.

>>19620640
Parsifal.

>One day, over lunch, Wagner rates Plato's Symposium above all other literary works: 'In Shakespeare we see Nature as it is, here we have the artistic awareness of the benefactor added; what would the world know about redeeming beauty without Plato?'

>>19620770
Thanks anon, now I have Dante and Wagner on my list of based platonists

>>19620640
Nigger

>>19620640
Garcilaso de la Vega and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

>>19620640
i bess thy thread with a bump

m-me?? tell me if it's poor

No help from evil
Stuck suspended in ceaseless flux
So diseas-ed
Pulled down, like the cypress Ephesian
Boughs shorn, roots shed
Light snuffed
Your rays, o Phoebus

Gold to silver, bronze to iron
All decays
Like falls for unlike
The mould slips from its wright
Wings clipped, cut for criminal desire
Spools spun
Array those with shameful attire
To dance like smoke on a mirror
Fenced forever for its slither
A snake
Its lies are not worth a pluck
Of your lyre, lord Pythia

Is this fate not punishment enough?
Betrayers thrown to the gyre
Away from His touch
No,
Your face lies effaced, crushed
Beneath the batons you let ring
As the coming night rushed,
Strangling the day

>>19621906
title Parabolani*

>>19621854
Al primero no lo conozco, lo leeré a ver que tal. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz sí la he leído, me fascina, es mi poetisa favorita en español (en prosa me gusta Cervantes).

>>19620640
Petrarch, also Sufi poets

where would Dryden and Spencer fall in the spectrum? Those (in addition to Donne) are the only poets I currently have

>>19620770
Wager was a /lit/eratus. Poet, bard, philosopher, politician, super-human.

>>19620640
Dante wasn't a Platonist. If he was anything, he was a Neo Platonist; and even that is iffy.