«НЕБЕСНАЯ КРАСОТА ЗЕМНОГО»: ЭДВАРД ТОМАС И МИСТИКА ПРИРОДЫ

Abstract

The article deals with the study of the works of the British writer of the early XX century Edward Thomas, who paid considerable attention to the themes of nature and its perception by a man in his works. The author shows that Thomas, being far from religiosity, saw the only source of the “transcendent” in nature, although he was sceptical about the received “revelations”. However, he valued mystical attitude to nature in his predecessors’ works and even found something acceptable for contemporary consciousness among the mystic writers of the XVII century. His worldview was expressed most fully in poetry, to which he turned in the last two years of his life.