Elizabethan Spirits

William Empson

  • The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age by Frances Yates
    Routledge, 224 pp, £7.75, November 1979, ISBN 0 7100 0320 X

Something badly needed has got left out from the great structure that Dame Frances Yates has been building as an exposition of her view of the Occult tradition. I have felt it since her book on Bruno (1964), though I am ill-equipped to complain. Still, my ideas derive from a critic who had something of her own range of knowledge, and she seems to ignore his views, so I may speak up.

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