Yeats And Theosophy
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Author | : Ken Monteith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135915628 |
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When H. P. Blavatsky, the controversial head of the turn of the century movement Theosophy, defined "a true Theosophist" in her book The Key to Theosophy, she could have just as easily have been describing W. B. Yeats. Blavatsky writes, "A true Theosophist must put in practice the loftiest moral ideal, must strive to realize his unity with the whole of humanity, and work ceaselessly for others." Although Yeats joined Blavatsky's group in 1887, and subsequently left to help form The Golden Dawn in 1890, Yeats's career as poet and politician were very much in line with the methods set forth by Blavatsky's doctrine. My project explores how Yeats employs this pop-culture occultism in the creation of his own national literary aesthetic. This project not only examines the influence theosophy has on the literary work Yeats produced in the late 1880's and 1890's, but also Yeats's work as literary critic and anthology editor during that time. While Yeats uses theosophy's metaphysical world view to provide an underlying structure for some of his earliest poetry and drama, he uses theosophy's methods of investigation and argument to discover a metaphysical literary tradition which incorporates all of his own literary heroes into an Irish cultural tradition. Theosophy provides a methodology for Yeats to argue that both Shelley and Blake (for example) are part of a tradition that includes himself. Basing his argument in theosophy, Yeats can argue that the Irish people are a distinct race with a culture more "sincere" and "natural" than that of England.
Author | : Baccana |
Publisher | : Weiser Books |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Download W.B. Yeats and Occultism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Frank Kinahan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2019-08-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000639355 |
Download Yeats, Folklore and Occultism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This lively introduction to the poems of W. B. Yeats, first published in 1988, provides a series of intriguing new readings of his work in relation to his profound involvement with occultism and folklore. During Yeats’s formative years as an artist, two compelling movements were emerging: the revivals of interest in Irish folklore and in the mag
Author | : Annie Besant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Theosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Howard O'Brien |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Download THEOSOPHY AND THE POETRY OF GEORGE RUSSELL(AE), WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, AND JAMES STEPHENS. Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Morton Irving Seiden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Download William Butler Yeats: the Poet as a Mythmaker, 1865-1939 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Seán Golden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : 9781782053996 |
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"The association of Yeats with Asia suggests references to Byzantium, Theosophy, the influence of Mohini Chatterjee, Occultism, Rabindranath Tagore or the Upanishads, Nōh theatre, masks or his fugitive use of Zen koans, and the gyres as a version of Yin and Yang. Yeats made explicit references to Asian matters in his works, like the Buddha in 'The Statues,' as well as implicit references that might be evident to Asian readers but otherwise opaque, like the 'polished mirror' in Per Amica Silentia Lunae. There is also the vexed and vexing question of 'Asia' itself'. For the ancient Greeks it was the far shore of the Aegean Sea, the opposite and 'Other' of their own 'Europe,' long before Edward Said called attention to the implications and consequences of 'Orientalism'. Many experts doubt that Yeats 'correctly' understood the Asian cultural references that he cherry-picked for his own purposes. Others doubt that it really mattered, since he turned everything he touched to his own idiosyncratic use anyway. These essays revisit the roles of West, South and East Asia in his work and revise the theoretical bases that have been applied to his use of Asia in the past"--
Author | : Graham Hough |
Publisher | : Brighton, Sussex : Harvester Press ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Erik Sand |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2020-01-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0190853883 |
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The Theosophical Society (est. 1875 in New York by H. P. Blavatsky, H. S. Olcott and others) is increasingly becoming recognized for its influential role in shaping the alternative new religious and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth and the twentieth century, especially as an early promoter of interest in Indian and Tibetan religions and philosophies. Despite this increasing awareness, many of the central questions relating to the early Theosophical Society and the East remain largely unexplored. This book is the first scholarly anthology dedicated to this topic. It offers many new details about the study of Theosophy in the history of modern religions and Western esotericism. The essays in Imagining the East explore how Theosophists during the formative period understood the East and those of its people with whom they came into contact. The authors examine the relationship of the theosophical approach with orientalism and aspects of the history of ideas, politics, and culture at large and discuss how these esoteric or theosophical representations mirrored conditions and values current in nineteenth-century mainstream intellectual culture. The essays also look at how the early Theosophical Society's imagining of the East differed from mainstream 'orientalism' and how the Theosophical Society's mission in India was distinct from that of British colonialism and Christian missionaries.
Author | : Patrick J. Keane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Occultism in literature |
ISBN | : 9781800643222 |
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Shedding fresh light on the life and work of William Butler Yeats--widely acclaimed as the major English-language poet of the twentieth century--this new study by leading scholar Patrick J. Keane questions established understandings of the Irish poet's long fascination with the occult: a fixation that repelled literary contemporaries T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden, but which enhanced Yeats's vision of life and death.