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The ecstatic poetic tradition : a critical study from the ancients through Rumi, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson and Tagore /

"This work is a critical study in four parts: a general inquiry into ecstatic states; an historical outline of the ecstatic poetic tradition; an intensive study of the five representative poets; and a discussion of critical implications, especially those bearing on psychology, sociology, and re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moores, D. J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
Subjects:
Ecstasy in literature.
Poetry > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Ecstatic beginnings
  • The overture
  • Ecstatic states of consciousness
  • Historical outline
  • The ancient poetics and aesthetics of ecstasy
  • Autochthonous and modern ecstatic poetry
  • Critical studies
  • The whirling dervish : Rumi
  • The power of imagination : William Wordsworth
  • The body ecstatic : Walt Whitman
  • The cracked mind : Emily Dickinson
  • The wise man of the East : Rabindranath Tagore
  • Critical implications
  • Extra-literary implications
  • Literary implications : a problematic rapture
  • Ecstasy the Eudaimonic turn.