Ecstasy
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"The primal and danger-breeding gift of ecstasy [...] is bestowed upon few. Keats had it, and Shelley; despite his passion, Byron missed it, as did the austere Wordsworth—who had, perhaps, loftier compensations. Swinburne had it from the first. Not Tennyson and Browning, only in occasional exaltation. Like the cold devils of Felicien Rops, coiled in frozen ecstasy, the winds of hell booming about them, the poetry of Charles Baudelaire is ecstatic. Poe and Heine knew ecstasy ... William Blake and his figures, rushing down the secret pathway of the mystic, which zigzags from the Fourth Dimension to the bottomless pit of materialism, was a creator of the darker nuances of pain and ecstasy."--Bedouins (1920) by James Huneker |
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Ecstasy may mean:
- Ecstasy (emotion), a trance or trance-like state in which an individual transcends normal consciousness
- Religious ecstasy, a changed state of consciousness characterized by expanded spiritual awareness, visions or absolute euphoria
- Ecstasy (philosophy), a term used to mean "outside-of-itself"
- MDMA or Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, a psychedelic drug sold under the street name "ecstasy".
See also
- Ecstasy of St Theresa
- The Literature of Ecstasy (1921) by Albert Mordell