NCPERCS049 — Mysticism in World Poetry
Mysticism has been defined as direct communion with ultimate reality and the belief that knowledge of spiritual truth can be attained by subjective experience. Throughout the centuries and across the world the mystical element has been an integral part of poetry. In this class we will read and discuss poems written by the poet saints and Sufis of the east. We will then move on to the Romantic and Victorian poets of England, concluding with some of the poetry of our very own Emily Dickinson.