Mysticism in English Literature

by Caroline F. E. Spurgeon

Index

Aeschylus
Alchemists
Allen, H. E., Authorship of the Prick of Conscience
Ammonias Sakkas
Ancren Riwle

Bacon, Francis, Essays
Beauty; moon the symbol of;
Plato on;
truth and;
worship of
Behmenists. (See also under Boehme)
Bergson, mystical basis of his thought;
study of;
theory of rhythm
Bhagavad-Gîtâ
Blake, William;
Auguries of Innocence;
Europe;
Everlasting Gospel;
Illustrations to Job;
imagination of;
in-debtedness to Boehme;
greatness of;
Marriage of Heaven and Hell;
Milton;
Of Natural Religion;
Songs of Innocence;
study of;
view of Nature;
Vision of Last Judgment
Boehme, Jacob;
Coleridge on;
influence of;
Law's use of;
study of;
view of evil
Bourignon, Madame
Bradley, A. C., Shakespearian Tragedy
Brontë, Charlotte
----- Emily; Last Lines;
Philosopher;
Prisoner;
study of;
Visionary
Browne, Sir Thomas
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett;
Aurora Leigh
Browning, Robert;
Asolando;
Bean-stripe;
his central teaching;
Death in the Desert;
his intellectuality;
his love-mysticism;
Paracelsus;
on pre-existence;
Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau ;
Rabbi ben Ezra;
on religion and science;
resemblance to Eckhart;
Ring and the Book;
Statue and Bust;
study of;
his view of evil
Bruno, Giordano
Bunyan, John
Burke, Edmund;
Present Discontents;
study of
Byron

Cambridge Platonists
Carlyle, Thomas
influence of Emerson on;
Heroes;
nature of his mysticism;
Sartor Resartus;
study of
Catherine of Genoa
Chaucer
Christ, use of symbolism
Christianity and mysticism
Cloud of Unknowing
Coleridge, S. T.
Crashaw's influence on;
Dejection;
Destiny of Nations;
Frost at Midnight;
Kant's influence;
Lay Sermon;
Letter to Tulk;
Neo-platonic influence;
Religious Musings;
study of;
Swedenborg's influence
Crashaw, Richard
influence of;
St Teresa

Descartes
Deonise Hid Divinite
Dionysius the Areopagite, Mystical Theology
Donne, John
Ecstasy;
Letter to Woodward;
Letters to Countess of Huntingdon;
Negative Love;
Of our Sense of Sinne;
Poem on Eliz. Drury;
Progress of the Soul;
Soul's Joy;
study of;
Undertaking
Dryden

E., A.
Eckhart
Emerson, R. W.
English national character and mysticism
Entbehrung
Epistle of Discretion
Epistle of Privy Counsel
Erskine, Thos., of Linlathen
Evil, see under Good and Evil

Familists
Farquhar, J. W.
Fénelon
Fichte
Fire, views of, held by Law and Boehme
Flaxman
Fox, George

Godwin, Mary, see Shelley, Mrs——William
Goethe
doctrine of Entbehrung;
influence on Carlyle
Good and Evil, problem of
Gosse, Edmund, on Patmore's Sponsa Dei
Greek delight in beauty
Grierson, H. J. C., Donne's Poems
Grosseteste
Guyon, Madame

Hartley, David
Harvey, Christopher, School of the Heart
Hegel
Herbert, George
Hindu mysticism
Hinton, James, Mystery of Pain
Hugh of St Victor
Hylton, Walter
Scale or Perfection

Imagination
a creative force;
attainment of truth through;
love and;
reality of;
the "saviour of the world,"
Inge, W. R., Selections from the German Mystics
Intuition

James, William
Jefferies, Richard
Story of My Heart;
study of
Julian, Lady
Revelations of Divine Love

Kant
Keats, George
Keats
Endymion;
Letter to Taylor;
Ode on Nightingale;
Ode on Grecian Urn;
Plato's influence on;
Revision of Hyperion;
study of

Knowledge, mental and spiritual
supremacy of intuition over intellectual, (see also under Truth)
Krishna

Lamb, Charles
Lâo-Tsze
Law, William
Appeal to all that doubt;
Boehme's influence on;
early studies;
Serious Call;
Spirit of Prayer;
study of;
Way to Divine Knowledge
Lawrence, Sir Thomas
Love, human and divine
in Ancren Riwle;
Blake on;
Boehme on;
Browning on;
Coleridge on;
Crashaw on;
Donne on;
Herbert on;
Keats on;
Lady Julian on;
Patmore on;
Richard Rolle on;
Shelley on;
Thomas de Hales on;
Francis Thompson on;
Traherne on

Macaulay
Macleod, Fiona
Man, divinity and greatness of;
unity with God
Maurice, F. D.
Meredith, George
Metaphysical Society
Moonlight, Keat's sensitiveness to
More, Henry
Mysticism, ascetic;
basic fact of;
beginnings in East;
Bergson's contributions to;
English character and;
erotic;
experiences of melody in;
happiness and
Hindu
meaning of the word
methods of, (see also under Love, Vision, and Imagination, etc.)
of beauty
pathways to, (see also under Vision, etc.)
philosophical
religious thinkers and, (see also under names of authors)
Nature, views and interpretation of
Neo-platonists
Nettleship, R. L., Philosophical Remains
Newton, debt to Boehme
Norris, John, of Bemerton

Pain, problem of
Pascal, Blaise
Patmore, Coventry
Angel in the House
Bow set in the Cloud
Child's Purchase and The Toys
Conjugial Love
Crashaw's influence on
Dieu et ma Dame
Memoirs
Precursor
Religio Poetæ
Sod, Boot, and Flower
Sponsa Dei
study of
Piers Plowman
Plato
influence on Donne
Plotinus
Shelley
Spenser
Vaughan
on beauty
on love
Phædrus,
Republic
Symposium
system of
Platonists, Cambridge
Plotinus
Enneads
Letter to Flaccus
Plato's influence on
system of
Pope
Porphyry
Pratt, J. B., Religious Philosophy of William James
Pre-existence, belief in
Pythagoras

Quakers.
Quia amore langueo

Religion and Science
Rhythm, Beigson's theory of
Richard of St Victor
Benjamin Minor
Robinson, Henry Crabb
Rolle, Richard
Fire of Lone
Pricke of Conscience
study of
Rossetti, Christina
Rossetti, D. G.
Hand and Soul
House of Life
sensuousness of
study of
Ruysbroeck

St Augustine
City of God
influence of Plotinus on
St Bernard of Clairvaux
St Bonaventura
St Catherine of Siena
St Francis of Assisi
Fioretti
St John of the Cross
St Martin
St Paul
St Teresa
Schelling
Scotus Eriugena, John
Seekers
Separatists
Shakespeare
Shelley, Mrs (Mary Godwin)
Shelley;
Adonais;
Epipsychidion;
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty;
imagination of;
influence of Plato;
Julian and Maddalo;
love mysticism of;
Prometheus;
Revolt of Islam;
Rosalind and Helen;
study of
Smith, John, the Platonist
Society, unity in
Socrates
Song of Solomon
Spenser, Edmund, Hymns;
Plato's influence on
Spinoza
Stewart, J., Myths of Plato
Sunlight, Jefferies' sensitiveness to
Suso
Swedenborg
Heaven and Hell,;
influence of;
thought of;
Wisdom of Angels
Swinburne, A. C., Essay on Blake
Symbolism

Tauler
Taylor, Keats's letter to
Tennyson
Ancient Sage;
Higher Pantheism;
Holy Grail;
In Memoriam;
study of
Thelwall
Theologia Germanica
Thomas de Hales, Luve Ron
Thompson, Francis;
Crashaw's influence on;
Daisy;
Health and Holiness;
Hound of Heaven;
Ode to Setting Sun;
Poppy;
study of
Thought, reality of
Time
Traherne, T.
Approach;
Centuries of Meditations;
Eden;
Innocence;
Rapture;
Salutation;
study of;
Wonder
Transcendentalists
Treatise of Discerning Spirits
Truth, beauty and;
imagination and;
intellect and;
steps towards. See also under Knowledge
Tulk, C. A.

Underhill, Evelyn, Mysticism
Upanishads

Vaughan, Henry
Affliction;
Hidden Flower;
Quickness;
Retreate;
Resurrection and Immortality;
World;
study of
Vision, faculty and ecstasy of
pain and
physical condition and
renunciation and

Watts-Dunton, Theodore, article on Rossetti
Whichcote, Benjamin
Will, power of
Wordsworth, William
attainment of vision
debt to Vaughan
Duddon Sonnets
Excursion
fallacy of usual conception of
mediation of
Ode on Intimations of Immortality
Prelude
Recluse
Solitary Reaper
Stepping Westward
study of
Tintern Abbey
value of common things
view of Nature

Yeats, W. B.