A platonick song of the soul
By: Henry More ; edited with an introductory study by Alexander Jacob.
Contributors: Jacob, A.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Lewisburg, Pa; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 657
Subjects: Soul -- Poetry.; Philosophy -- Poetry.; Neoplatonism -- Poetry.
Description: This is the first complete modern edition of Henry More's long philosophical poem, A Platonick Song of the Soul (1647). This early work of the Cambridge Platonist, written in Spenserian stanzas, is a sustained literary presentation of the Neoplatonic doctrine of the immateriality and immortality of the soul.

Despite the occasional strenuousness of its poetic style, the Platonick Song offers a splendid baroque evocation of the extraordinary powers of the soul both in its individual microcosmic form and in its universal macrocosmic manifestation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [643]-657.