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New for 2023: Victorian Poetry Scroll back for previous courses on Shakespeare, Eighteenth Century Poetry, Close Reading, Various film genres, Film and Philosophy, the Western Canon, Early Romantics, 17th Century Poetry, etc.
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Friday Oct 08, 2010
Friday Oct 08, 2010
Second class on Plato: the through line in Socrates being his ambivalence about poetry: in the Republic, in the Ion, for example. His penchant for quoting Homer despite this. Compared to Hamlet quoting Aeneas's Tale to Dido. What threat does poetry represent to philosophy? Both seek the same ground as discourses of everything. The idea of divine inspiration: the magnetic influence of poetry. More on forms. The form of mud in the Parmenides.
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