Routledge Revivals: Neglected Powers (1971) - Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Preface; Part One - Introduction 1. Poetry and magic; Part Two - Obscenities 2. Who wrote Don Leon? 3. Coleman and Don Leon 4. Lawrence, Joyce and Powys 5. Mysticism and Masturbation: an introduction to the lyrics of John Cowper Powys 6. The ship of cruelty: on the lyrical poems of John Cowper Powys Part Three - Spiritualities 7. The Scholar Gypsy 8. Poetry and the Arts: Tennyson, Browning, O’Shaughnessy, Yeats 9. Masefield and Spiritualism 10. Rupert Brooke 11. T.E. Lawrence 12. J. Middleton Murray 13. T.S. Eliot 14. John Cowper Powys Part Four -Totalities 15. Excalibur: an essay on Tennyson 16. Owen Glendower: Powys 17. Francis Berry Epilogue 18. Herbert Read and Byron; Appendix; Indexes

About the author

G. Wilson Knight

Summary

First published in 1971, this book draws analytic attention to poets including Tennyson, Masefield, and Brooke, who are shown to hold a dimension of meaning previously ignored or misunderstood.

Product details

• Authors: G. Wilson Knight, G. Wilson (University of Calgary Knight, Knight G. Wilson, George Wilson Knight
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2017
• EAN: 9781138308008
• ISBN: 978-1-138-30800-8
• No. of pages: 500
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literature: history and criticism