Contents

I. [Introduction]

Definition of Mysticism. The Early Mystical Writers. Plato. Plotinus. Chronological Sketch of Mystical Thought in England.

II. [Love and Beauty Mystics]

Shelley, Rossetti, Browning, Coventry Patmore, and Keats.

III. [Nature Mystics]

Henry Vaughan, Wordsworth, Richard Jefferies.

IV. [Philosophical Mystics]

(i) Poets.—Donne, Traherne, Emily Brontë, Tennyson.

(ii) Prose Writers.—William Law, Burke, Coleridge, Carlyle.

V. [Devotional and Religious Mystics]

The Early English Writers: Richard Rolle and Julian; Crashawe, Herbert, and Christopher Harvey; Blake and Francis Thompson.

[Bibliography]

[Index]