U.S. & Canadian Poetry - 19th Century - Literary Criticism, English Poetry - 20th Century - Literary Criticism, Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Mysticism - General & Miscellaneous, English Poetry - 19th Century - Literary Criticism, U.S. & C

Mystical Themes and Occult Symbolism in Modern Poetry: Wordsworth, Whitman, Hopkins, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Plath

Name: Mystical Themes and Occult Symbolism in Modern Poetry: Wordsworth, Whitman, Hopkins, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Plath
Author: Dal-Yong Kim
ISBN: 9780773437807

by Dal-Yong Kim

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Overview

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.