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Platonism for the Iron Age
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Platonism for the Iron Age

An Essay on the Literary Universal
By: Frederic Will

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The present book is a study of Platonic idealism as it can play out in daily life. It buttresses its defense of the Platonic through…
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The present book is a study of Platonic idealism as it can play out in daily life. It buttresses its defense of the Platonic through reference both to Classical Greek and eighteenth-century thought, and to language in the pressure cooker of the American street.

Frederic Will is an independent scholar who divides his time between Iowa and Ughelli, Delta State, Nigeria. He has written critical and autobiographical texts, travel reports, fiction and poetry, and studies in the operation of ideas.

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-4438-5820-X
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-5820-5
  • Date of Publication: 2014-05-16

Paperback

  • ISBN: 1-4438-7623-2
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-7623-0
  • Date of Publication: 2015-04-23

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-4438-5960-5
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-5960-8
  • Date of Publication: 2015-04-23
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Subject Codes:

  • BIC: JFC, HP, HPCA
  • BISAC: PHI042000, PHI002000, PHI001000, LIT006000, LIT004190, LIT020000
  • THEMA: JBCC, QD, QDHA
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  • Beautifully balanced reflective poems
    - —On A Wedge of Words 1963, London Times Literary Supplement
  • A lone genius, a huge bombshell of gravity
    - —Willis Barnstone Indiana University, on Will's The Long Poem in the Age of Twitter, 2011
  • A stimulating and provocative work
    - —On Literature Inside Out 1966, Poetry (Chicago)
  • Will is of that academic breed which lives with literature and not off it
    - —On The King's Flute (translation of epic by Kostes Palamas) 1966, Modern Language Journal

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