Traces of Sufism in British Romanticism / / Naji Oueijan.
This work argues that there are traces of Sufism to be found in British Romanticism. It does not set out to prove that the six great British Romantic writers, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Lord Byron, Bessie Shelley, and John Keats were Sufi poets but to argue that they were i...
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