Hills of Age

Hills of Age is a book of poetry about Platonism or the Way of Beauty and the Intellect. It’s about the peace of the presence of eternity, the pain of its absence. It tells the life story of a Platonist, explains Platonism in verse as well as expressing it through a poetry of place. Short narrative poems end the volume, particularly Capperbar, the story of a pressed man in the 18th century Royal Navy and the consolation of the mysticism of beauty.

Hills of Age is a companion piece to the prose of The Nature of Things, an explanation and history of spiritual or mystical Platonism from its 5th BC beginnings to its ending in the 20th century. It follows Platonism underground through the Middle Ages, its influence on Gothic Cathedrals, its revival in the Renaissance, its impact on Christianity, the West, philosophy, art and culture.