The article presents the relationship between the motifs of blindness and extrasensory perception in the works of Ukrainian Romantic poets. The author of the article shows the ancient lineage of the great blind men — soothsayers and poets-visionaries — and examines the multifaceted symbolism of blindness based on the literary images of blind kobzars, lirnyks and bandurists. The author focuses on the evolution of symbolism of blindness in the works of Taras Shevchenko.
The article is devoted to the influence of esoteric philosophy on the European and Russian literature at the turn of the 20th century. The author analyzes the causes of the fascination with clairvoyance (as well as other kinds of extrasensory perception) and examines its various expressions in the works of H.P. Blavatsky, Alexander Aksakov, Annie Besant, Charles Leadbeater, Rudolf Steiner, Gustav Meyrink, Maurice Maeterlinck, Andrei Belyi, Leo Kobylinsky-Ellis, Nikolai Roerich et al.
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