Latz also finds her style to be poetic, reflecting the influence of mystics like St Augustine
and Ruysbroeck
(whose work was later translated and discussed by Evelyn Underhill
); Thimelby quotes and cites these two...
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Evelyn Underhill
EU
issued her first full-length biographical study, Ruysbroeck, about the fourteenth-century Flemish mystic Jan van Ruusbroec
(or John Ruysbroeck).
Dana Greene
and theDictionary of Literary Biography mistakenly give the original publication date as 1915.
Greene, Dana. Evelyn Underhill: Artist of the Infinite Life. Crossroad, 1990.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
In 1912 EU
prepared an edition of The Cloud of Unknowing with an introduction tracing its history from its beginnings in the sixth century through its first translation into English, in the fourteenth century. Her...