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

Published Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 261 pages) 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and index Notes Print version record Subject 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 POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. American poetry English poetry Mysticism in literature Occultism in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773443907 0773443908

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