Odysseus Meets Nausicaa

Odysseus Meets Nausicaa
Odysseus Meets Nausicaa, Pieter Lastman (1619), In Munich Old master Gallery

Monday, September 5, 2011

Spenser's Fairie Queen, Plato, and Blake

"Now I'm discovering there is also a literary path. It turns out that Spenser's Faerie Queen contains poetic accounts of these same ideas. Particularly the Plato-derived fable that souls gather in one spot to await dying out of the Ideal world, and being born into ours. As they descend they have a material body made for them. " Read More: http://epyle.blogspot.com/



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