Selected Writings by Thomas Taylor


Selected Writings
Title : Selected Writings
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ISBN : 0710060629
ISBN-10 : 9780710060624
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 544
Publication : First published July 1, 1969

This volume makes available to the modern reader selected writings of Thomas Taylor, the eighteenth-century English Platonist. TO Taylor we are indebted for the first full translation into English of Plato and Aristotle. Platonism, as Taylor saw it, was an informing principle, transmitted through a "golden chain of philosophers," a doctrine received by Socrates and Plato from the Orphic and Pythagorean past and transmitted to the future. It emerged again and again, enriched in the School of Alexandria, in Renaissance art, in the works of Spenser, Shelley, Yeats. Kathleen Raine is well known as a poet. GEorge Mills Harper is Professor of English, University of Florida. Bollingen Series LXXXVIII.



Originally published in 1969.

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Selected Writings Reviews

  • Murray

    This book appears to be out of print and I see that it can be purchased in the States for $125. I am glad to say my copy was cheaper than that! Thomas Taylor dedicated his voluminous works to The Sacred Majesty of Truth (a phrase a great beauty). He is hardly known today, but was, and remains, one of the foremost scholars of Platonic and Neoplatonic philosphy and Theology. Recent work by the Prometheus Trust have brought all his writings into print for the first time ever. However, Katherine Raine's selection is a valuable resource if you can get hold of it.

  • Dionysius the Areopagite

    A truly great man and selection(s) with commendable supplements solidifying that Thomas Taylor was and is both incomparable and immutable. One is tempted to note that an inexpensive version must be printed; but then one realizes one is the sole person who has any interest in the Platonist Taylor, and hence astronomical malady. Thus, instead of making notes seeking a $60.00 slash on the book's cost, one ought instead slash a bull's throat in pagan sacrifice to Apis and Neito, as the gods and Taylor would have it.