William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism - A Contextual Study and Annotated Edition of ''The Hurricane''

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.

About the author

Paul Cheshire has written a number of articles on Coleridge and his contemporaries, including a chapter on Coleridge's notebooks for the Oxford Handbook of S. T. Coleridge. He has also written on the influence of seventeenth century hermetic philosophy on Milton. His initial study of The Hurricane, 'The Hermetic Geography of William Gilbert', appeared in Romanticism in 2003.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Cheshire, Paul Gilbert Cheshire, William Gilbert
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781800856660
• ISBN: 978-1-80085-666-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies