Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau

1. Homer: Passion in the Iliad
Simon Haines

2. Sophocles’ Antigone and Thucydides’ Athens: Romanticism and Realism in Politics
Simon Haines

3. Plato and Aristotle: Concept and Passion
Simon Haines

4. The Inheritance of Augustine: Confessions
Simon Haines

5. Aquinas and the Realist Revival
Simon Haines

6. Dante and Medieval Romanticism
Simon Haines

7. Renaissance, Reformation and Shakespeare’s Realism
Simon Haines

8. Romanticism from Descartes to Rousseau
Simon Haines

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Classical and Antique Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, History of Philosophy