Keats Hermeticism And The Secret Societies

Author : Jennifer N. Wunder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317109392
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keats, Hermeticism, and the Secret Societies written by Jennifer N. Wunder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Wunder makes a strong case for the importance of hermeticism and the secret societies to an understanding of John Keats's poetry and his speculations about religious and philosophical questions. Although secret societies exercised enormous cultural influence during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, they have received little attention from Romantic scholars. And yet, information about the societies permeated all aspects of Romantic culture. Groups such as the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons fascinated the reading public, and the market was flooded with articles, pamphlets, and books that discussed the societies's goals and hermetic philosophies, debated their influence, and drew on their mythologies for literary inspiration. Wunder recovers the common knowledge about the societies and offers readers a first look at the role they played in the writings of Romantic authors in general and Keats in particular. She argues that Keats was aware of the information available about the secret societies and employed hermetic terminology and imagery associated with these groups throughout his career. As she traces the influence of these secret societies on Keats's poetry and letters, she offers readers a new perspective not only on Keats's writings but also on scholarship treating his religious and philosophical beliefs. While scholars have tended either to consider Keats's aesthetic and religious speculations on their own terms or to adopt a more historical approach that rejects an emphasis on the spiritual for a materialist interpretation, Wunder offers us a middle way. Restoring Keats to a milieu characterized by simultaneously worldly and mythological propensities, she helps to explain if not fully reconcile the insights of both camps.

Author : Jennifer N. Wunder
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Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keats, Hermeticism, and the Secret Societies of the Romantic Period written by Jennifer N. Wunder and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1690 pages
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Download or read book MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marie Mulvey Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book Secret Texts written by Marie Mulvey Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the authors whose writings are explored in this volume are: Swift, Peacock, Dickens, Paladin, Kipling, Yeats and A.E. Waite.

Author : Edward Beecher
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781346879055
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Societies written by Edward Beecher and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Lewis M. Schwartz
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keats Reviewed by His Contemporaries written by Lewis M. Schwartz and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Keightley
Publisher : Elibron Classics
ISBN 13 : 140216355X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Societies of the Middle Ages written by Thomas Keightley and published by Elibron Classics. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1848. The present volume is devoted to the history of three celebrated societies which flourished during the middle ages, and of which, as far as we know, no full and satisfactory account is to be found in English literatures. These are the Assassins, or Ismailites, of the East, whose name has become in all the languages of Europe synonymous with murderer, who were a secret society, and of whom we have in general such vague and indistinct conceptions; the military order of the Knights Templars, who were most barbarously persecuted under the pretext of their holding a secret doctrine, and against whom the charge has been renewed at the present day; and, finally, the Secret Tribunals of Westphalia, in Germany, concerning which all our information has hitherto been derived from the incorrect statements of dramatists and romancers.

Author : Thomas Keighley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781978096547
Total Pages : 224 pages
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Download or read book Secret Societies of the Middle Ages written by Thomas Keighley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret Societies of the Middle Ages

Author : Keightley Thomas
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781318024810
Total Pages : 418 pages
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Download or read book Secret Societies of the Middle Ages written by Keightley Thomas and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : David MacDill
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781505918298
Total Pages : 44 pages
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Download or read book Secret Societies, a Discussion of Their Character and Claims written by David MacDill and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret Societies is a fascinating discussion of secret societies such as the Masons and Odd Fellows, written from a 19th century Christian perspective.