Title Mystical themes and occult symbolism in modern poetry : Wordsworth, Whitman, Hopkins, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Plath / Dal-Yong Kim ; with a foreword by Timothy Materer.

Publication Info.	Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2009]
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Description	1 online resource (xv, 261 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and index.
Contents	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.
Summary	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 bases on which the poets' various mystical or occult ideas work to produce their distinct creative characters.
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Subject	English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	English poetry.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Mysticism in literature.
	Mysticism in literature.
	English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Occultism in literature.
	Occultism in literature.
	American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	American poetry.
	American poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term	1800-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: Kim, Dal-Yong, 1949- Mystical themes and occult symbolism in modern poetry. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2009 9780773437807 (DLC) 2009042341 (OCoLC)456174215
ISBN	9780773443907 (electronic book)
	0773443908 (electronic book)
	9780773437807
	0773437800

Title Mystical themes and occult symbolism in modern poetry : Wordsworth, Whitman, Hopkins, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Plath / Dal-Yong Kim ; with a foreword by Timothy Materer.

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