Mystical themes and occult symbolism in modern poetry : Wordsworth, Whitman, Hopkins, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Plath /

This study argues that esoteric ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and James Frazer provide answers to ontological questions about the origin and substance of poets looking beyond the established rationalist codes of the industrial society. The ideas also give comprehensive critical insight into creative...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kim, Dal-Yong, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2009.
Temas:
1800-1999
English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Mysticism in literature.
English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.
Occultism in literature.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.
Poésie anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Mysticisme dans la littérature.
Poésie anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Occultisme dans la littérature.
Poésie américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Poésie américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American poetry.
English poetry.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Literary mysticism and occultism: critical introduction
  • William Wordsworth's "spots of time" and the Enlightenment
  • Walt Whitman's "democratic self" and the "mystic Orient"
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins's "inscape" as natural sacramentalism
  • W.B. Yeats's occult poetics: the "wisdom of the daemonic image"
  • Ezra Pound's "modern Eleusis" and Friedrich Nietzsche's Dionysianism
  • T.S. Eliot's "still point" and New England puritanism
  • Sylvia Plath's vitalist occultism: "a piranha religion"
  • The mystic, the occult, and the self.

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