Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult

Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult PDF Author: Matthew Gibson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1942954255
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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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.

Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult

Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult PDF Author: Matthew Gibson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1942954255
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Book Description
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.

Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult

Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult PDF Author: Matthew Gibson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781786944160
Category : Occultism in literature
Languages : en
Pages :

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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.

Making the Void Fruitful

Making the Void Fruitful PDF Author: Patrick J. Keane
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781800643222
Category : Occultism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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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.

W. B. Yeats's a Vision

W. B. Yeats's a Vision PDF Author: Neil Mann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 098353392X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 395

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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.

Yeats and Theosophy

Yeats and Theosophy PDF Author: Ken Monteith
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135915628
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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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.

Yeats and the Occult

Yeats and the Occult PDF Author: George Mills Harper
Publisher: Macmillan of Canada : Maclean-Hunter Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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The Mystery Religion of W.B. Yeats

The Mystery Religion of W.B. Yeats PDF Author: Graham Hough
Publisher: Brighton, Sussex : Harvester Press ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble
ISBN:
Category : Occult sciences in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Yeats, Folklore and Occultism

Yeats, Folklore and Occultism PDF Author: Frank Kinahan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000639355
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Book Description
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

The Birth of Modernism

The Birth of Modernism PDF Author: Leon Surette
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773512436
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Book Description
In The Birth of Modernism Leon Surette challenges our traditional understanding of modernism by situating the origins of modernist aesthetics in the occult.

Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage

Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage PDF Author: M. Gibson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230286496
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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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.