Plotinus The Ethical Treatises Being The Treatises Of The First Ennead With Porphyry S Life Of Plotinus And The Preller Ritter Extracts Forming A Conspectus Of The Plotinian System Classic Reprint

Plotinus the Ethical Treatises; Being the Treatises of the First Ennead With Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, and the Preller-Ritter Extracts Forming a Conspectus of the Plotinian System (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Plotinus the Ethical Treatises; Being the Treatises of the First Ennead With Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, and the Preller-Ritter Extracts Forming a Conspectus of the Plotinian System In the Intellectual Kosmos dwells Authentic Essence, with the intellectual-principle (divine Mind) as the noblest of its content, but containing also souls, since every soul in this lower sphere has come thence that is the world of unembodied spirits while to our world belong those that have entered body and undergone bodily division. There the intellectual-principle is a concentrated all-nothing of it distinguished or divided - and in that kosmos of unity all souls are concentrated also, with no spatial discrimination. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Poetry of Paradise

Emphasizing the interplay of aesthetic forms and religious modes, Sean Pryor's ambitious study takes up the endlessly reiterated longing for paradise that features throughout the works of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. Yeats and Pound define poetry in terms of paradise and paradise in terms of poetry, Pryor suggests, and these complex interconnections fundamentally shape the development of their art. Even as he maps the shared influences and intellectual interests of Yeats and Pound, and highlights those moments when their poetic theories converge, Pryor's discussion of their poems' profound formal and conceptual differences uncovers the distinctive ways each writer imagines the divine, the good, the beautiful, or the satisfaction of desire. Throughout his study, Pryor argues that Yeats and Pound reconceive the quest for paradise as a quest for a new kind of poetry, a journey that Pryor traces by analysing unpublished manuscript drafts and newly published drafts that have received little attention. For Yeats and Pound, the journey towards a paradisal poetic becomes a never-ending quest, at once self-defeating and self-fulfilling - a formulation that has implications not only for the work of these two poets but for the study of modernist literature.

The Perennial Tradition of Neoplatonism