The Ecstatic Poetic Tradition: A Critical Study from the Ancients through Rumi, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson and Tagore

Moores, D.J.

ISBN 10: 0786478160 / ISBN 13: 9780786478163

Published by McFarland & Company, 2014

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Cover may have light wear, pages in very good condition and binding is sturdy; may have other light shelf wear or creases. May have notes or highlighting.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ecstatic Poetic Tradition: A Critical Study from the Ancients through Rumi, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson and Tagore
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786478160
• ISBN 13: 9780786478163
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

About this title

Synopsis

This work is not only a general inquiry into ecstatic states of consciousness and an historical outline of the ecstatic poetic tradition but also an intensive study of five representative poets--Rumi, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson, and Tagore. In a refreshingly original, wide-ranging engagement with concepts in psychology, religion, philosophy, aesthetics, sociology and history, this book demonstrates that the poetics and aesthetics of ecstasy represent an ancient, ubiquitous theory of poetry that continues to influence writers in the current century.

About the Author

D.J. Moores is an associate professor of literature at National University in San Diego, California.