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Mystical Themes and Occult Symbolism in Modern Poetry: Wordsworth, Whitman, Hopkins, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Plath
Author(s): Dal-Yong Kim (Author)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 Nov. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 276 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780773437807
- ISBN-13: 0773437800
Book Description
Romantic and modern English poets endeavored to embody the ancient mystical lore and visions of ecstatic primordial unity in their distinct prescriptive responses to the needs of the times. Mysticism and occultism were philosophical reations against the intellectual and social process of the Enlightenment and religious inquiries into the tranquil reaches of metaphysical speculation and spiritual fulfillment.
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Romantic and modern English poets endeavored to embody the ancient mystical lore and visions of ecstatic primordial unity in their distinct prescriptive responses to the needs of the times. Mysticism and occultism were philosophical reations against the intellectual and social process of the Enlightenment and religious inquiries into the tranquil reaches of metaphysical speculation and spiritual fulfillment.
About the Author
Professor Kim, is a professor of English Literature at Chonnam National University in Korea. He is the author of Puritan Sensibility in T.S.Eliot’s Poetry (1994) and the English translator of books on Korean history, religion, and culture.
