Mysticism in English Literature eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 143 pages of information about Mysticism in English Literature.

Mysticism in English Literature eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 143 pages of information about Mysticism in English Literature.

Delacroix, H. Etudes d’Histoire et de Psychologie du Mysticisme, Paris, 1908.

Recejac, E. Essai sur les fondements de la Connaissance Mystique, Paris, 1897 (translated by S. C. Upton, London, 1899).

Gregory, Eleanor C. A Little Book of Heavenly Wisdom. Selections from some English prose mystics, with Introduction.  Methuen, 1902.

Foreign Influences

Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.). Opera, ed.  J. Burnet, 5 vols. (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Classicorum Oxoniensis), 1899-1907.

Plato (Eng. trans.) The Dialogues, translated by B. Jowett, 5 vols., Oxford, 3rd ed., 1892.

Plotinus (A.D. 204-270). Plotini Enneades, praesmisso Porphyrii de vita Plotini deque ordine librorum ejus libello, edidit R. Volkmann, 2 vols., Leipzig, 1883-84. (Eng. trans.) There is no complete English translation of the Enneads, only Select Works, translated by T. Taylor, 1817; re-issued, George Bell, 1895. (French trans.) Les Enneades de Plotin, translated by M.-N.  Bouillet, 3 vols., Paris, 1857-61. (This is complete and very good, but out of print.) The best critical account of Plotinus is in The Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers, by Edward Caird, 2 vols., Maclehose, 1904.

Dionysius the Areopagite. Works, translated Parker, 1897.

Jacob Boehme (1575-1624). Works (incomplete), 4 vols., 1764-81.  Reprint of complete works in progress, ed.  C. J. Barker, published J. Watkins. (See Bibliography to chap. xii. of Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. ix.)

Emmanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). Works, published by the Swedenborg Society, London.  Selections, A Compendium of the Theological Writings, ed.  Warren, 1901.

English Writers

Thomas de Hales (fl. 1250). A Luve Ron, (printed in) Morris’s Old English Miscellany (E.E.T.S.), 1872.

Richard Rolle (1290?-1349). Richard Rolle and his Followers, ed.  Horstmann, 2 vols., Sonnenschein, 1895-6. The Fire of Love, and the Mending of Life, ed.  R. Harvey (E.E.T.S.), 1896.

Anonymous (c. 1350-1400). The Cloud of Unknowing, ed.  Evelyn Underhill, J. Watkins, 1912.

All printed, with other early English mystical treatises, in The Cell of Self-Knowledge, ed.  E. G. Gardner, Chatto & Windus, 1910. The Epistle of Prayer, The Epistle of Discretion, The Treatise of Discerning Spirits

Anonymous. The Epistle of Privy Counsel, in MS., British Museum, Harleian, 674 and 2473.

(William Langland, or other authors.? c. 1362-1399). The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman, ed.  Skeat, 2 vols., Oxford, 1886.  Jusserand, J. J. Piers Plowman:  a Contribution to the History of English Mysticism. Translated from the French by M. E. R., 1894.

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