The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus by Thomas Taylor

The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus by Thomas Taylor  Publishing: 1896 Bertram Dobell, Reeves and Truner  "The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus was originally published in 1824 and presents Taylor's translations of the Hymns of Orpheus, with a lengthy Introduction in which he expounds his thesis that they were the original invocations used in the Eleusinian mystery plays. Thomas Taylor (1758 - 1835), was a one time bank-clerk who devoted himself to the classics with such passion that it was said that he and his wife only allowed themselves to converse with each other in in the language of ancient Greece. He became the leading modern exponent of Neo-Platonic thought, and it was largely as a result of his translations of Iamblichus, Proclus, Porphyry and other Neoplatonists and Pythagoreans that their work and thought became known within nineteenth century English-speaking mystical circles. Taylor's translations also served to introduce the Romantic poets to Platonism, and in the US his work was enth