Title: A platonick song of the soul
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Poetry, Philosophy, Soul, Neoplatonism, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
LC classification: PR3605.M7 P58 1998