{"product_id":"british-poets-and-secret-societies-routledge-revivals-paperback-softback","title":"British Poets and Secret Societies (Routledge Revivals) - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA surprisingly large number of English poets have either belonged to a secret society, or been strongly influenced by its tenets. One of the best known examples is Christopher Smart’s membership of the Freemasons, and the resulting influence of Masonic doctrines on A Song to David. However, many other poets have belonged to, or been influenced by not only the Freemasons, but the Rosicrucians, Gormogons and Hell-Fire Clubs. First published in 1986, this study concentrates on five major examples: Smart, Burns, William Blake, William Butler Yeats and Rudyard Kipling, as well as a number of other poets. Marie Roberts questions why so many poets have been powerfully attracted to the secret societies, and considers the effectiveness of poetry as a medium for conveying secret emblems and ritual. She shows how some poets believed that poetry would prove a hidden symbolic language in which to reveal great truths.The beliefs of these poets are as diverse as their practice, and this book sheds fascinating light on several major writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44576497074414,"sku":"9781138796218","price":33.59,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9781138796218.jpg?v=1704442780","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/british-poets-and-secret-societies-routledge-revivals-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}