Mesmeric

I will cite as examples of this Mesmeric version of the delayed release of sublime passion two well-known poems from Lyrical Ballads, the original "Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" of 1798, whose mesmeric tropes and images have received a great deal of attention over the years, and "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey," from the same volume, which has, to my knowledge, rarely been examined in Mesmeric terms.

Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows 1998

Mesmeric fluid or vital force which is proving empirically elusive.

Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul 2008

One infrequently cited partly because it was secret and never published addendum to the study expanded on the "touch" part of the Mesmeric protocol.

Another Essay Starting from the Same Place James Killus 2007

The Commissioners concluded that Mesmer's animal magnetism had no existence and that imagination, imitation, and touch were the true causes of the observed effects in the Mesmeric salon.

Another Essay Starting from the Same Place James Killus 2007

The Commissioners concluded that Mesmer's animal magnetism had no existence and that imagination, imitation, and touch were the true causes of the observed effects in the Mesmeric salon.

Imagination James Killus 2007

Considered in the light of Mesmeric theory, the entire Prelude can be seen as an attempt to uncover, through speech, primodial "blockages" arrested in "spots of time" behind which vast stores of vital imaginative/magnetic energy have been accumulated, in order to make the "renovating virtue" (Prelude 11. 257-9) arrested in such moments available as a "power of joy" to the conscious mind.

Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows 1998

Lane Cooper, in an essay published in 1910, became the first to ever burst into the sea of Mesmeric flotsom littering the "Rime," in addition to citing related material in "Christabel," "Kubla Khan," Osorio, and other works.

Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows 1998

(Interestingly, Burke thought that in their "languid inactive state, the nerves are more liable to the most horrid convulsions" (122), which, considered from a Mesmeric point of view, might indicate the body's attempts at self-healing.)

Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows 1998

Read in this context, the glowing sea-snakes gathering in the shadow of the ship -- that is, in nearer proximity to the Mariner -- seem to comprise an ocean-going galvanic battery emitting an electric spark, a "flash of golden fire," in every "track" or, in Mesmeric terms, every "pass" near the ailing Mariner, as if to excite or draw forth the "spring of love" that eventually gushes from his heart.

Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows 1998

In Wordsworth's epiphanic description of "the life of things," the language of the "inner" senses (a standard element in eighteenth-century speculations on morality and taste) opens up into a common Mesmeric belief "in the existence of an internal sense that does not differentiate among the various modes of perception" common to the ordinary senses (Tatar, 46).

Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows 1998