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Author Cheshire, Paul, author.

Title William Gilbert and esoteric Romanticism : a contextual study and annotated edition of The hurricane / Paul Cheshire
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) : illustrations
Series Romantic reconfigurations : studies in literature and culture 1780-1850
Romantic reconfigurations.
Contents Introduction -- 1. A magus of the 1790s : William Gilbert in Bristol and London -- 2. Bristol and the first Romantics -- 3. 'With no unholy madness' : Gilbert and Coleridge -- 4. 'My astrological friend' : Gilbert and Southey -- 5. The Calenture : Gilbert and Wordsworth -- The Hurricane : a Theosophical and Western Eclogue. To which is subjoined, A Solitary Effusion in a Summer's Evening -- 6. The Hurricane and hermetic geography -- 7. Decoding the allegory of the 'Theosophical and Western Eclogue' -- 8. Son of a saintly slave owner -- 9. Esoteric Romanticism
Summary This first annotated edition of William Gilbert's enigmatic poem, The Hurricane: a Theosophical and Western Eclogue, with extended interpretative chapters informed by Gilbert's magical and astrological writings, shows how its dark materials fed the imaginations of his friends Coleridge, Wordsworth and Southey, in their formative years between 1795 and 1798
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Gilbert, William, 1763- -- Criticism and interpretation
Poets, English -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Antigua -- Biography
English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Romanticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Literature: history & criticism.
Literary theory.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
Literary studies: poetry & poets.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
English poetry
Poets, English
Romanticism
Antigua and Barbuda -- Antigua
Great Britain
Genre/Form Literary criticism
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Literary criticism.
Biographies.
Critiques littéraires.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781786948724
1786948729
Other Titles Hurricane
Hurricane
Hurricane