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Platonism and Poetry in the Twelfth Century : The Literary Influence of the School of Chartres / Winthrop Wetherbee.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1827Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1972Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691619903
  • 9781400873036
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 871/.03/09 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chronological Table -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Twelfth-Century Platonism and the Pursuit of Wisdom -- CHAPTER TWO. Philosophy and Experience: Boethius, Martianus Capella, and their Twelfth-Century Commentators -- CHAPTER THREE. The Poetry of the Twelfth-Century Schools -- CHAPTER FOUR. Form and Inspiration in the Poetry of Bemardus Silvestris -- CHAPTER FIVE. Nature and Grace: The Allegories of Alain de Lille -- CHAPTER SIX. The Poetry of the Schools and the Rise of Romance -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Chartrian Allegory and the World -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Chartres as an intellectual and cultural force in the Renaissance of the twelfth century has engaged the attention of critics and scholars from R. L. Poole through Gilson, Curtius, and Huizinga to, most recently, Peter Dronke. Its importance as a poetic tradition is now reviewed by Winthrop Wetherbee, first as it developed at Chartres, then as it influenced later poetry, French as well as Latin. Mr. Wetherbee analyzes, and supports with his own translations, the poetry notably of Bernardus Silvestrus and Alain dc Lille: he defines the intellectual milieu of the Chartrian poets and their Platonic conception of nature, man, and poetry. Myth, philosophy, and the literary statement that gives them poetic being are Mr. Wetherbee's essential concern, as they were in fact the concern of the poets he discusses.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chronological Table -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Twelfth-Century Platonism and the Pursuit of Wisdom -- CHAPTER TWO. Philosophy and Experience: Boethius, Martianus Capella, and their Twelfth-Century Commentators -- CHAPTER THREE. The Poetry of the Twelfth-Century Schools -- CHAPTER FOUR. Form and Inspiration in the Poetry of Bemardus Silvestris -- CHAPTER FIVE. Nature and Grace: The Allegories of Alain de Lille -- CHAPTER SIX. The Poetry of the Schools and the Rise of Romance -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Chartrian Allegory and the World -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index

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Chartres as an intellectual and cultural force in the Renaissance of the twelfth century has engaged the attention of critics and scholars from R. L. Poole through Gilson, Curtius, and Huizinga to, most recently, Peter Dronke. Its importance as a poetic tradition is now reviewed by Winthrop Wetherbee, first as it developed at Chartres, then as it influenced later poetry, French as well as Latin. Mr. Wetherbee analyzes, and supports with his own translations, the poetry notably of Bernardus Silvestrus and Alain dc Lille: he defines the intellectual milieu of the Chartrian poets and their Platonic conception of nature, man, and poetry. Myth, philosophy, and the literary statement that gives them poetic being are Mr. Wetherbee's essential concern, as they were in fact the concern of the poets he discusses.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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