The Inner Journey of the Poet, and Other PapersPoet Kathleen Raine explores the idea that "journey" has been the theme of most imaginative poetry of the ages. Quoting from ancient mythology to Wordsworth, she charts the journeys into regions of consciousness that poet's have taken. Examples such as Dante's Divine Comedy are studied in detail. The author compares poetry to Jungian pscychology which also deals with inner journeys. (SLNSW Infocus item 2212). |
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... dream we might ourselves have dreamed . Dante's fear , when he finds himself entangled in natural life , in the forests of affliction ' , the ' forests of the night ' as Blake was later to call that place , communicates itself to us ...
... dream we might ourselves have dreamed . Dante's fear , when he finds himself entangled in natural life , in the forests of affliction ' , the ' forests of the night ' as Blake was later to call that place , communicates itself to us ...
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... dream . The conflict was one he witnessed in the world of his time , but in the dream the emotion is naked ; external events are after all but an expression of the eternal conflict within ourselves , and is not even history the ...
... dream . The conflict was one he witnessed in the world of his time , but in the dream the emotion is naked ; external events are after all but an expression of the eternal conflict within ourselves , and is not even history the ...
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... dream ' of which he wrote in Endymion I have clung To nothing , lov'd a nothing , nothing seen Or felt but a great dream ! In a letter to Bailey he wrote more explicitly , more Platonically , of the mundus imaginalis , ' The Imagination ...
... dream ' of which he wrote in Endymion I have clung To nothing , lov'd a nothing , nothing seen Or felt but a great dream ! In a letter to Bailey he wrote more explicitly , more Platonically , of the mundus imaginalis , ' The Imagination ...
Contents
What is Man? | 1 |
Premises and Poetry | 14 |
The Inner Journey of the Poet | 25 |
Copyright | |
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