Higher Self in Christopher Brennan's Poems : Esotericism, Romanticism, Symbolism.

Intro -- 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" to "The anguish'd doubt broods over Eden" -- "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 -- Concepts 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.

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