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

Chris Lott chris at chrislott.org
Sun May 3 18:18:24 EDT 2009


Do you mean Newman's "Idea of the University"? Or does the piece have
an alternate title? The only thing I can find that looks close is
Mill's "Inaugural Address to St. Andrews University"

c

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Uche Ogbuji <uche at ogbuji.net> wrote:
>
> How about Baldassare Castaglione, Thomas Elyot, Marsilio Ficino and the
> other early European Platonists.  The idea of idea was their bread and
> tea.  More recently I've always thought that John Stuart Mill's "Idea of
> a University" is in itself as much an "Idea of the institution of ideas."




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