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William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism - A Contextual Study and Annotated Edition of 'The Hurricane' (Hardcover)
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William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism - A Contextual Study and Annotated Edition of 'The Hurricane' (Hardcover)
Series: Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850, 3
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William Gilbert, poet, theosophist and astrologer, published The
Hurricane: A Theosophical and Western Eclogue in Bristol in 1796,
while he was on intimate terms with key members of Bristol literary
culture: Coleridge published an extract from The Hurricane in his
radical periodical The Watchman; Robert Southey wrote of the poem's
'passages of exquisite Beauty'; and William Wordsworth praised and
quoted a long passage from Gilbert's poem in The Excursion. The
Hurricane is a copiously annotated 450 line blank verse visionary
poem set on the island of Antigua where, in 1763, Gilbert was born
into a slave-owning Methodist family. The poem can be grouped with
other apocalyptic poems of the 1790s-Blake's Continental
Prophecies, Coleridge's Religious Musings, Southey's Joan of
Arc-all of which gave a spiritual interpretation to the dramatic
political upheavals of their time. William Gilbert and Esoteric
Romanticism presents the untold story of Gilbert's progress from
the radical occultist circles of 1790s London to his engagement
with the first generation Romantics in Bristol. At the heart of the
book is the first modern edition of The Hurricane, fully annotated
to reveal the esoteric metaphysics at its core, followed by close
interpretative analysis of this strange elusive poem.
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