Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Magic and Literature
1. Magic is a Dirty Word
2. Meeting the Magician
3. Magic Words
4. How to Make A Poet
5. Magic Portals
6. Tricksters
7. The Tarot
8. The I Ching
9. The Magic Nine
10. Gurdjieff & Colin Wilson
11. Yeats' Apparatus
12. Shakespeare's Magic England
13. Faust: You Are the Lucky Fist
14. The Lost Fairies
15. Childe Roland
16. Magical Animals
17. Love and Magic
18. Magic and Endings
Postscript: Magic and the Future.

About the Author

Adrian May is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Essex and is the author of Myth and Creative Writing: The Self-Renewing Song (2011)