'Lovers and philosophers at once': aesthetic platonism in the Victorian Fin de Siecle.

Yearbook of English Studies | January 1, 2006| | Copyright

This article considers the reception of Plato by writers close to the aesthetic movement in the Victorian fin de siecle. In Plato, and especially in the Phaedrus, authors such as John Addington Symonds, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde find a myth that links male homosexuality to artistic and literary eminence. Pater in 'Winckelmann' and Wilde in 'The Story of Mr W.H.' trace, through Plato, the influence of homoeroticism on the formation and transmission of the literary canon. Plato's mythic ideal of eros becomes the shared element of a millennial tradition of homoerotic reading ...

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