The Higher Self in Christopher Brennan's Poems : : Esotericism, Romanticism, Symbolism / / Katherine Barnes.

• Superior document: Aries Book Series ; 2
• VerfasserIn: Barnes, Katherine,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Aries Book Series ; 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

In 1914 a remarkable poetic work appeared in Sydney, Australia, written in the form of a Symbolist livre composé by one of Stephane Mallarmé's earliest admirers, Christopher Brennan. The book, simply titled Poems , shows that Brennan was exploring pressing religious issues of his time. He mel...

Table of Contents

• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter One: Divinity and the Self
• Introduction
• Looking for a Human Divinity
• "Twilights of the gods and the folk"
• Esoteric Wisdom
• "My hidden country"
• Chapter Two: Mirror and Abyss
• Brennan, Yeats and Boehme
• The Argument to the Lilith Sequence
• "The watch at midnight"
• "The plumes of night, unfurl'd" and the Inner "Abyss"
• Chapter Three: Art and Silence
• The Romantic View of Imagination
• Five Short Pieces: From "The trees that thro' the tuneful morn had made"
• "O thou that achest, pulse o' the unwed vast"
• "Thick sleep, with error of the tangled wood"
• "Terrible, if he will not have me else"
• "She is the night: all horror is of her"
• Chapter Four: Brennan's Theory of 'Moods'
• Stimmung and Gemüth in German Pre-Romanticism and Romanticism
• Concept of Moods in Early Yeats
• Les Dieux Antiques
• 'Moods' in Brennan's Early Prose
• Chapter Five: "Red autumn in Valvins"
• Introduction
• The 'Passion' of the Poet
• Transposition
• 'Musicality' in the Elegy
• "Was Mallarmé a Great Poet?"
• Chapter Six: Two Preludes and a Liminary
• Introduction
• "MDCCCXCIII: a prelude"
• The Liminary
• "O yon, when Holda leaves her hill"
• Chapter Seven: The Assimilation of our Inmost Passion to the Tetralogy of the Year
• A Secular Liturgy
• "Towards the Source"
• "Secreta Silvarum"
• Interludes
• "Autumn: the year breathes dully" and "The grand cortège of glory"
• The symbol of the rose
• "1908"
• Conclusion
• Appendix One: Table of Contents for Poems
• Appendix Two: Sources of Brennan's Lilith: T.K. Cheyne and Isaiah
• Appendix Three: Relevant Works from Brennan's Library
• Appendix Four: Relevant Works Held by the Public Library of NSW 1895-1909
• Bibliography
• Index.