Publication
Imprint: Kettering, Ohio : Angelico Press, Sophia Perennis, 2016. Edition: First edition. OCLC Number: 967288423. Physical: 1 volume : 198 pages ; 23 cm.
Call number
LS / Upton
ISBN
9781597311717
Original publication date
2016
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Description: Poetry is not entertainment. It is not propaganda. It is not a way for any particular group to define its identity or push its agenda. it is not an exploration of the colors and textures and odors of language in and of itself, apart from questions of meaning. It is not a form of self-expression. Rather, it is a specific way of knowing based on symbolic or anagogic thinking. What poets used to know is that poetry is a metaphysical art, both in terms of its forms and strategies and of its characteristic themes--the royal key to the spiritual Love Hoard of the human race. -- From the Jacket.
Table of Contents: Introduction --
The siege perilous --
Image, music, and meaning --
More on the muse --
Mythopoesis --
Nirukta and mantram: the atemporal morphology --
Homer, poet of maya --
The metaphysical uses of metaphor, kenning, riddle and rune in the Teutonic tradition --
Metaphysical lore in traditional ballads --
The poetic art in the 21st century: a rant --
Lew Welch as teacher --
The dark side of poetry: Terence McKenna, DMT, the techno-elves, and the deconstruction of the human form --
Sufism, spiritual romance, and the union of east and west --
The spiritual exercises of Lew Welch: essays in perceptual Buddhism --
An exegesis of the prologue to William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell --
Hamlet's soliloquy: a metaphysical exegesis --
The city of Byzantium in the Symbology of William Butler Yeats --
Seeing God --
Watching Olivier's Lear --
The curse of poetic subjectivism --
Every man (or inch) a king --
High energy declamatory verse: an excerpt from The Wars of Love --
Appendix: Occidental poetics: a vindication of spiritual idealism -- by Jennifer Doane Upton.
FY2017
Table of Contents: Introduction --
The siege perilous --
Image, music, and meaning --
More on the muse --
Mythopoesis --
Nirukta and mantram: the atemporal morphology --
Homer, poet of maya --
The metaphysical uses of metaphor, kenning, riddle and rune in the Teutonic tradition --
Metaphysical lore in traditional ballads --
The poetic art in the 21st century: a rant --
Lew Welch as teacher --
The dark side of poetry: Terence McKenna, DMT, the techno-elves, and the deconstruction of the human form --
Sufism, spiritual romance, and the union of east and west --
The spiritual exercises of Lew Welch: essays in perceptual Buddhism --
An exegesis of the prologue to William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell --
Hamlet's soliloquy: a metaphysical exegesis --
The city of Byzantium in the Symbology of William Butler Yeats --
Seeing God --
Watching Olivier's Lear --
The curse of poetic subjectivism --
Every man (or inch) a king --
High energy declamatory verse: an excerpt from The Wars of Love --
Appendix: Occidental poetics: a vindication of spiritual idealism -- by Jennifer Doane Upton.
FY2017
Physical description
198 p.; 23 cm
Language
Original language
English