A Platonick Song of the Soul

by Henry More, A. Jacob

This is the first complete modern edition of Henry More's long philosophical poem, A Platonick Song of the Soul (1647). This early work, written in Spenserian stanzas, is a sustained literary presentation of the Neoplatonic doctrine of the immateriality and immortality of the soul. The Introduction to this book discusses both the literary background of the work and its varied philosophical and scientific sources, from Plotinus to Ficino and Galileo.

Genres: Philosophy

657 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1998

About the author

Henry More FRS (1614–1687) was an English philosopher of the Cambridge Platonist school.

Henry was born at Grantham and was schooled at The King's School, Grantham and at Eton College. Both his parents were Calvinists but he himself "could never swallow that hard doctrine."