{"product_id":"william-gilbert-and-esoteric-romanticism-a-contextual-study-and-annotated-edition-of-the-hurricane-paperback","title":"William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism: A Contextual Study and Annotated Edition of 'The Hurricane' - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Cheshire\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWilliam Gilbert\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Gilbert, poet, theosophist and astrologer, published \u003ci\u003eThe Hurricane: A Theosophical and Western Eclogue \u003c\/i\u003ein Bristol in 1796, while he was on intimate terms with key members of Bristol literary culture: Coleridge published an extract from \u003ci\u003eThe Hurricane\u003c\/i\u003e in his radical periodical \u003ci\u003eThe Watchman\u003c\/i\u003e; Robert Southey wrote of the poem's 'passages of exquisite Beauty'; and William Wordsworth praised and quoted a long passage from Gilbert's poem in \u003ci\u003eThe Excursion\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003e The Hurricane \u003c\/i\u003eis a copiously annotated 450 line blank verse visionary poem set on the island of Antigua where, in 1763, Gilbert was born into a slave-owning Methodist family. The poem can be grouped with other apocalyptic poems of the 1790s--Blake's \u003ci\u003eContinental Prophecies\u003c\/i\u003e, Coleridge's \u003ci\u003eReligious Musings\u003c\/i\u003e, Southey's \u003ci\u003eJoan of Arc\u003c\/i\u003e--all of which gave a spiritual interpretation to the dramatic political upheavals of their time. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism presents the untold story of Gilbert's progress from the radical occultist circles of 1790s London to his engagement with the first generation Romantics in Bristol. At the heart of the book is the first modern edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Hurricane\u003c\/i\u003e, fully annotated to reveal the esoteric metaphysics at its core, followed by close interpretative analysis of this strange elusive poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Cheshire has written a number of articles on Coleridge and his contemporaries, including a chapter on Coleridge's notebooks for the 'Oxford Handbook of S. T. Coleridge'. He has also written on the influence of seventeenth century hermetic philosophy on Milton. His initial study of 'The Hurricane', 'The Hermetic Geography of William Gilbert', appeared in Romanticism in 2003.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53301244068147,"sku":"9781800856660","price":105.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/YFclh7AUjE9781800856660.webp?v=1777507942","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/william-gilbert-and-esoteric-romanticism-a-contextual-study-and-annotated-edition-of-the-hurricane-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}