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

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

Cheshire, Paul
Gilbert, William

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Series: Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850, Book 3

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1800856660
ISBN13: 9781800856660
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Sep 1 2021
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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