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Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult collects seven new essays on aspects of Yeats's thought and reading, from ancient and modern philosophy and cosmological doctrines, mysticism and esoteric thought.
Author : Matthew Gibson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1942954255
Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult collects seven new essays on aspects of Yeats's thought and reading, from ancient and modern philosophy and cosmological doctrines, mysticism and esoteric thought.
Author : Matthew Gibson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Occultism in literature
ISBN : 9781786944160
'Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult' collects seven new essays on aspects of Yeats's thought and reading, from ancient and modern philosophy and cosmological doctrines, mysticism and esoteric thought.
Author : Patrick J. Keane
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Occultism in literature
ISBN : 9781800643222
Shedding fresh light on the life and work of William Butler Yeats--widely acclaimed as the major English-language poet of the twentieth century--this new study by leading scholar Patrick J. Keane questions established understandings of the Irish poet's long fascination with the occult: a fixation that repelled literary contemporaries T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden, but which enhanced Yeats's vision of life and death.
Author : Neil Mann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 098353392X
The first volume of essays devoted to W. B. Yeats's 'A Vision' and the associated system developed by Yeats and his wife, George. 'A Vision' is all-encompassing in its stated aims and scope, and it invites a wide range of approaches--as demonstrated in the essays collected here, written by the foremost scholars in the field.
Author : George Mills Harper
Publisher : Macmillan of Canada : Maclean-Hunter Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Graham Hough
Publisher : Brighton, Sussex : Harvester Press ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Occult sciences in literature
ISBN :
Author : Ken Monteith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135915628
When H. P. Blavatsky, the controversial head of the turn of the century movement Theosophy, defined "a true Theosophist" in her book The Key to Theosophy, she could have just as easily have been describing W. B. Yeats. Blavatsky writes, "A true Theosophist must put in practice the loftiest moral ideal, must strive to realize his unity with the whole of humanity, and work ceaselessly for others." Although Yeats joined Blavatsky's group in 1887, and subsequently left to help form The Golden Dawn in 1890, Yeats's career as poet and politician were very much in line with the methods set forth by Blavatsky's doctrine. My project explores how Yeats employs this pop-culture occultism in the creation of his own national literary aesthetic. This project not only examines the influence theosophy has on the literary work Yeats produced in the late 1880's and 1890's, but also Yeats's work as literary critic and anthology editor during that time. While Yeats uses theosophy's metaphysical world view to provide an underlying structure for some of his earliest poetry and drama, he uses theosophy's methods of investigation and argument to discover a metaphysical literary tradition which incorporates all of his own literary heroes into an Irish cultural tradition. Theosophy provides a methodology for Yeats to argue that both Shelley and Blake (for example) are part of a tradition that includes himself. Basing his argument in theosophy, Yeats can argue that the Irish people are a distinct race with a culture more "sincere" and "natural" than that of England.
Author : Frank Kinahan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000639355
This lively introduction to the poems of W. B. Yeats, first published in 1988, provides a series of intriguing new readings of his work in relation to his profound involvement with occultism and folklore. During Yeats’s formative years as an artist, two compelling movements were emerging: the revivals of interest in Irish folklore and in the mag
Author : M. Gibson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 17,6 MB
Release : 2000-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230286496
This work explores an aspect of Yeats's writing largely ignored until now: namely, his wide-ranging absorption in S.T. Coleridge. Gibson explores the consistent and densely woven allusions to Coleridge in Yeats's prose and poetry, often in conjunction with other Romantic figures, arguing that the earlier poet provided him with both a model of philosopher - 'the sage' - and an interpretation of metaphysical ideas which were to have a resounding effect on his later poetry, and upon his rewriting of A Vision.
Author : Claire Nally
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783039118823
Although Yeats is an over-theorized author, little attempt has been made to situate his occult works in the political context of 20th-century Ireland. This book provides a methodology for understanding the political and cultural impulses which informed Yeat's engagement with the otherworld.