1st Edition
British Poets and Secret Societies (Routledge Revivals)
By Marie Mulvey-Roberts
Copyright 2014
202 Pages
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Routledge
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202 Pages
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A surprisingly large number of English poets have either belonged to a secret society, or been strongly influenced by its tenets. One of the best known examples is Christopher Smart’s membership of the Freemasons, and the resulting influence of Masonic doctrines on A Song to David . However, many other poets have belonged to, or been influenced by not only the Freemasons, but the Rosicrucians,... Read more
Plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Frontispiece; 1. Introduction: Creative Underworlds 2. Christopher Smart 3. Robert Burns 4. Percy Bysshe Shelley 5. Rudyard Kipling 6. William Butler Yeats; Bibliography; Index
Biography
Marie Mulvey-Roberts
