Mystical themes and occult symbolism in modern poetry
Subtitle: Wordsworth, Whitman, Hopkins, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Plath
By: Dal-Yong Kim ; with a foreword by Timothy Materer.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773437807
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Literary mysticism and occultism: critical introduction; title: William Wordsworth's "spots of time" and the enlightenment; title: Walt Whitman's "democratic self" and the "mystic orient"; title: Gerard Manley Hopkins's "inscape" as natural sacramentalism; title: W. B. Yeats's occult poetics: the "wisdom of the daemonic image"; title: Ezra Pound's "modern Eleusis" and Friedrich Nietzsche's dionysianism; title: T. S. Eliot's "still point" and New England puritanism; title: Sylvia Plath's vitalist occultism: "a piranha religion"; title: The mystic, the occult, and the self.