Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Introduction; PART I: POTENT ARTS; 1. The Gnostic/Hermetic Tradition: Simon Magus to Faust; 2. Standing and Falling: Marlowe's Doctor Faustus; 3. Ariel Magic: Shakespeare's The Tempest; PART II: OVERGROWN PATHS; 4. Renaissance and Enlightenment: Kepler and Fludd; 5. Rationality and Romanticism: Newton and Blake; 6. Rediscoveries: Kipling, Yeats, Crowley, Pauli and Jung; PART III: RE-VISIONING MUTUALITIES; 7. The Fictional Fulcrum: Athol Fugard's Dimetos; 8. The Crystal Cliff: David Dabydeen's Disappearance; 9. The Magic Wound: Derek Walcott's Omeros.