Felicities to Visions to Reveries: Childhood Spirituality and the Poetics of Traherne, Blake and Yeats

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· 발행기관 : 한국예이츠학회
· 수록지 정보 : 한국 예이츠 저널 / 66권 / 99 ~ 119페이지
· 저자명 : Namrata Chaturvedi

초록

Thomas Traherne, William Blake and W. B. Yeats are recognized in English literary historiography as mystic poets and sometimes, even as prophets. All three were non-conformist, unconventional and faced obscurity or incredulity in poetic assessments in literary circles. Some writings of Traherne were lost, some were nearly accidentally burnt while only one work survived in his lifetime; many of Yeats’s more personal poems were not published and Blake remained an enigma and disturbance considering his theological views. Critics have commented on Traherne’s Christianity as leaning towards Celtic mysticism, while Blake’s poems sustain the Trahernian beliefs in the pristine innocence of the infant, leading some critics to comment that Traherne anticipated Blake. The influences of Blake on Yeatsian mysticism are well known and established in literary scholarship. This paper will focus on childhood spirituality as reflected in the poetry of Traherne, Blake and Yeats to explore whether any philosophical and/or poetic links can be established in the writings of these mystic poets form the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Towards the end, this paper will draw attention to recent interdisciplinary frameworks such as transpersonal psychological approaches to recontextualize their mystical poetry.

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