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Albert Mordell. The Literature of Ecstasy
The Literature of Ecstasy
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
Footnote
CHAPTER II
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ECSTASY
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CHAPTER III
ECSTASY, NOT RHYTHM, ESSENTIAL TO POETRY
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CHAPTER IV
PROSE THE NATURAL LANGUAGE OF THE LITERATURE OF ECSTASY
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CHAPTER V
PROSE PRECEDES VERSE HISTORICALLY
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CHAPTER VI
BLANK VERSE AND FREE VERSE AS FORMS OF PROSE
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CHAPTER VII
MORAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS AS POETRY WHEN WRITTEN WITH ECSTASY
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CHAPTER VIII
POETRY RISES ABOVE ART FOR ART'S SAKE AND INTUITION
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CHAPTER IX
HIGH FORM OF POETRY ECSTATIC PRESENTATION OF ADVANCED SOCIAL IDEALS
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CHAPTER X
LITERATURE OF ECSTASY EMANATES FROM THE UNCONSCIOUS
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CHAPTER XI
LOVE ECSTASY IN ARABIAN POETRY
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CHAPTER XII
CONCLUSION
INDEX OF AUTHORS
INDEX OF BOOKS AND WRITINGS
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Albert Mordell
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The Greeks used the word ecstasy in a modern secular sense rather than in a spiritual or pathological one. It was the unconscious memory of the poet coming to the fore and utilizing the intellect to pour light on the soul. It was not the mystic's ecstasy where irrational conclusions were arrived at because of some abnormality in the seer. The poet was always a critic and a philosopher who tamed his wildest thoughts. "Moderns are prone," says Butcher, "to believe that the action of poetic genius abdicates its rights and descends to the lower level of talent when it begins to reason. Greek literature decisively refutes such a notion. It exhibits the critical faculty as a great underlying element in the creative faculty."
Greek poetry then is the portrayal of reasoning passion, using at the same time a conscious technique. It was the outpouring of the personality of the poet made up of his intellect and passions. It represented the breaking forth of the unconscious into expression, controlled by a censorship on the part of the poet.
