Transcriber's Notes: Variations in spelling and hyphenation have beenleft as in the original except in the Index where the spelling has beenchanged to match the spelling in the body of the text. Ellipses match theoriginal. A complete list of corrections follows the text.Other notes also follow the text.

 

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THE LITERATURE
OF ECSTASY

BY

ALBERT MORDELL

Author of:
The Erotic Motive in Literature
Dante and Other Waning Classics
The Shifting of Literary Values

 

BONI and LIVERIGHT

Publishers        New York

 


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THE LITERATURE OF ECSTASY


Copyright, 1921, By
Boni & Liveright, Inc.


Printed in the United States of America


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CONTENTS

PAGE
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION9
 
CHAPTER II. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ECSTASY18
 
CHAPTER III. ECSTASY, NOT RHYTHM, ESSENTIAL TO POETRY42
 
CHAPTER IV. PROSE THE NATURAL LANGUAGE OF THE LITERATURE OF ECSTASY77
 
CHAPTER V. PROSE PRECEDES VERSE HISTORICALLY96
 
CHAPTER VI. BLANK VERSE AND FREE VERSE AS FORMS OF PROSE111
 
CHAPTER VII. MORAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS AS POETRY WHEN WRITTEN WITH ECSTASY123
 
CHAPTER VIII. POETRY RISES ABOVE ART FOR ART'S SAKE AND INTUITION138
 
CHAPTER IX. HIGH FORM OF POETRY ECSTATIC PRESENTATION OF ADVANCED SOCIAL IDEALS152
 
[Pg viii]CHAPTER X. LITERATURE OF ECSTASY EMANATES FROM THE UNCONSCIOUS179
 
CHAPTER XI. LOVE ECSTASY IN ARABIAN POETRY203
 
CHAPTER XII. CONCLUSION...

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