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.
  Centuries of Meditations;
  Eden;
  Innocence;
  Rapture;
  Salutation;
  study of;
  Wonder
Transcendentalists
Treatise of Discerning Spirits
Truth, beauty and;
  imagination and;
  intellect and;
  steps towards. See also under Knowledge
Tulk, C. A.

Underhill, Evelyn, Mysticism
Upanishads

Vaughan, Henry
  Affliction;
  Hidden Flower;
  Quickness;
  Retreate;
  Resurrection and Immortality;
  World;
  study of
Vision, faculty and ecstasy of
pain and
  physical condition and
  renunciation and

Watts-Dunton, Theodore, article on Rossetti
Whichcote, Benjamin
Will, power of
Wordsworth, William
  attainment of vision
  debt to Vaughan
  Duddon Sonnets
  Excursion
  fallacy of usual conception of
  mediation of
  Ode on Intimations of Immortality
  Prelude
  Recluse
  Solitary Reaper
  Stepping Westward
  study of
  Tintern Abbey
  value of common things
  view of Nature

Yeats, W. B.

Footnotes

[1] “The Religious Philosophy of William James,” by J. B. Pratt, Hibbert Journal, Oct. 1911, p. 232.

[2] On “Spirit,” in Philosophical Remains of R. L. Nettleship, ed.  A. C. Bradley, 1901, pp. 23-32.

[3] Republic, ii. 376.

[4] Symposium, 211, 212.

[5] This distinction between East and West holds good on the whole, although on the one side we find the heretical Brahmin followers of Bhakti, and Ramananda and his great disciple, Kabir, who taught that man was the supreme manifestation of God; and on the other, occasional lapses into Quietism and repudiation of the body.  See The Mystic, Way, by E. Underhill, pp 22-28.

[6] For an account of Boehme’s philosophy, see pp. 91-93 below.

[7] See his essay on him in Representative Men.

[8] Memoirs and Correspondence of C. Palmore, by B. Champneys, 1901, vol. ii. pp. 84, 85.

[9] Selections from the German Mystics, ed.  Inge (Methuen, 1904), p. 4.

[10] See his article on Rossetti in the Nineteenth Century for March 1883.

[11] House of Life, Sonnet xvii.

[12] House of Life, Sonnets i., xxvii., lxxvii.

[13] See Religio Poetae, p. 1.

[14] Memoirs, ed.  Champneys, i. 146.

[15] The Angel in the House. Bk. ii. prelude ii.

[16] The Angel in the House, canto viii. prelude iv.

[17] See pp. 113, 114 below.

[18] The Child’s Purchase and The Toys, poems, I vol., 1906, pp. 287, 354.

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