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

[Uche Ogbuji]

Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> Chris Lott wrote:

> How about Baldassare Castaglione, Thomas Elyot, Marsilio Ficino and the
> other early European Platonists.  The idea of idea was their bread and
> tea.

I should say sometimes the "idea of idea" and sometimes "idea of Idea".
 In other words, like Plato they sometimes went a bit cargo-cult
enthusiastic, though you'd be less tempted to ascribe to Plato shades of
the pet-de-loup.

(And despite that cheeky characterization I definitely had my adolescent
period of cargo-cult enthusiasm for the generations of Platonists, and
even though I'm more Epicurean in sensibility these days, I do have a
soft spot for those old hierophants.)


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