[New-Poetry] looking for poems (and other writing) on "the idea"

[Chris Lott]

I'm in search of poems (and other writing) that has as its topic-- or
as a significant theme-- the "idea" -- not so much ideas in general,
but "the idea of the idea" ... what an idea is, how it works, how an
idea came to one or was discovered. This probably seems pretty vague,
but as some context: I am preparing for a keynote in which I am
discussing the history of the concept of the idea from Plato through
the transition to the idea as generating something new not revealing a
pre-existing form and how that history is an important consideration
when contemplating technology, education and creativity...

I have a lot of philosophical, linguistic and etymological source
material-- and some Dryden, Chaucer, Keats (negative capability) and
Eliot (tradition and the individual talent)-- but am looking for a bit
more.

c