Between Method and Madness: Essays on Swedenborg and Literature

Between Method and Madness: Essays on Swedenborg and Literature addresses Swedenborg’s influence on the literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Opening with a lyrical and critical masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning poet William Butler Yeats and closing with a rarely seen essay by Arthur Conan Doyle, the volume examines Swedenborg’s role in the birth and rise of the Symbolist movement and his influence upon Victorian poetry and Spiritualism.