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The Truth of Imagination

An Introduction to Visionary Poetry

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  • © 1989

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  1. Andrew J. Welburn

    1. New College, Oxford, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction The Truth of Imagination

    1. Introduction: The Truth of Imagination

      • Andrew J. Welburn
      Pages 1-15

    2. The Poetry of Vision

      • Andrew J. Welburn
      Pages 16-50

  3. Neglected Visionary

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. Milton’s Inner Journey

      • Andrew J. Welburn
      Pages 53-78

    3. Milton’s Christianity and the Birth of the Ego

      • Andrew J. Welburn
      Pages 79-95

  4. Devil’s Companions — Romantic Mythologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Blake, Initiation, and The Book of Thel

      • Andrew J. Welburn
      Pages 99-122

    3. The Devil for a Companion — Goethe and Shelley

      • Andrew J. Welburn
      Pages 123-148

    4. From Prometheus Unbound to The Portal of Initiation: Shelleyan Themes in Steiner’s Mystery-Play

      • Andrew J. Welburn
      Pages 149-164

    5. The Two Lives of W. B. Yeats

      • Andrew J. Welburn
      Pages 165-201

  5. Epilogue The Tower

    1. Epilogue The Tower

      • Andrew J. Welburn
      Pages 202-214

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 215-238
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    Andrew J. Welburn

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