William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism: A Contextual Study and Annotated Edition of 'The Hurricane'

by Paul Cheshire

Book Overview

William Gilbert, poet, theosophist and astrologer, published The Hurricane: A Theosophical and Western Eclogue in Bristol in 1796, while he was on intimate terms with key members of Bristol literary culture: Coleridge published an extract from The Hurricane in his radical periodical The Watchman; Robert Southey wrote of the poem's 'passages of exquisite Beauty'; and William Wordsworth praised and quoted a long passage from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800856660
• ISBN13: 9781800856660
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 272 Pages