British Poets and Secret Societies, 1st edition

ROBERTS, Marie: British Poets and Secret Societies

London: Croom Helm, 1986. 14.3 x 22.5 cm. 181pp. 

First edition.

Presented in publisher's original dark blue binding, with gilt to spine and ivory endpapers, pages very bright and clean throughout. Binding tight, with dust wrapper in excellent condition, price clipped. In extremely good condition, no marks of ownership.

A fascinating view into the beliefs and practices of Christopher Smart, Robert Burns, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, and William Butler Yeats. This now classic study by Marie Roberts asks why poets are attracted to the occult, and proposes the effectiveness of poetry's hidden symbolic language as a medium for conveying secret emblems and ritual.

£30