PART ONE: INTRODUCTION -- Poetry and Magic -- PART TWO: OBSCENITIES -- Who Wrote Don Leon -- Colman and Don Leon -- Lawrence, Joyce and Powys -- Mysticism and Masturbation: An introduction to the lyrics of John Cowper Powys -- The Ship of Cruelty: on the lyrical poems of John Cowper Powys -- PART THREE: SPIRITUALITIES -- The Scholar Gipsy -- Poetry and the Arts: Tennyson, Browning, O'Shaughnessy, Yeats -- Masefield and Spiritualism -- Rupert Brooke -- T.E. Lawrence -- J. Middleton Murry -- T.S. Eliot -- John Cowper Powys -- PART FOUR: TOTALITIES -- Excalibur: an essay on Tennyson -- Owen Glendower: Powys -- Francis Berry -- PART FIVE: EPILOGUE -- Herbert Read and Byron -- Appendix: T.S. Eliot and Pericles -- Indexes *Iain Stewart
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English literature 19th century History and criticism
English literature 20th century History and criticism