Word: platonist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer he is often criticized as one whose natural vein of mysticism has made him a Platonist, responsive to the mystic vein of Gaelic literature. Richness, sympathy, and mysticism are the chief marks of his lyric poetry, and appear also in his prose-drama on Irish tradition, "Deirdre". He is also a sympathetic and imaginative critic. Deeply interested in the social and political problems of Ireland, he has written and done much for his country in this connection. At one time he was the editor of The Irish Statesman...
...club were discussing immortality and religion which he believes subjects too deep for immature minds. One might add that these are too deep for any mind. If Mr. Hayes implies that maturity alone gives carte blanche to teleogical problems, he is certainly sangine and at least an anti-Platonist. For Plato had much faith in the thoughts of children...
...would also have guessed that M. Maurois accepts the latter half of Plato's apothegm: "There are two kinds of causes; one necessary, the other divine," and agrees with Vauvenargues: "Genius depends largely on our passions." The three compact dialogs of the present volume, between a young platonist-aristocrat lieutenant and his old rationalist-radical tutor, run widely and vigorously over the pros" and cons of the proposition: A leader of men is born, not made...
...Tall?rigid?lean?gray of face?heavy-lidded eyes of an almost Asian deadness?stonelike?impassive?like a figure from the pages of Dostoievsky?like a poor Russian nobleman," so the newspapermen found him, the greatest living Platonist, the world's most provoking mystic. The newsmen plied him with their trademarked questions. He was polite...