Platonism for the Iron Age: An Essay on the Literary Universal (Inside Selfhood And History) - Tapa dura

"Beautifully balanced reflective poems" -On A Wedge of Words, 1963, London Times Literary Supplement "A lone genius, a huge bombshell of gravity" -Willis Barnstone, Indiana University, on Will's The Long Poem in the Age of Twitter, 2011 "A stimulating and provocative work" -On Literature Inside Out, 1966, Poetry (Chicago) "Will is of that academic breed which lives with literature and not off it" -On The King's Flute (translation of epic by Kostes Palamas), 1966, Modern Language Journal

The present book is a study of Platonic idealism as it can play out in daily life. It buttresses its defense of the Platonic through reference both to Classical Greek and eighteenth-century thought, and to language in the pressure cooker of the American street.