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HERMITS IN LORE & LITERATURE

HERMITS IN LORE

The Tarot: what the hermit means.
The Hermit in Art: The Tarot through Waite.
P.D. Ouspensky: Symbolism of the Tarot: the hermit.
The I Ching: ancient eremitic source.
Peter the Hermit: medieval hermit war leader?
Ornamental hermits of eccentric modern England.
The Hermit, or, The Gift of Corn: a Sioux legend.
Emperor & the hermit: Alexander I and Feodor Kuzmich.
Fairy tales: the folkloric image of hermits.
Zarathustra, the hermit, and the madman.
Essays on hermits: Hilaire Belloc, G. K. Chesterton.
"Hermits" in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1907.
FILMS about hermits.


HERMITS IN LITERATURE

MEDIEVAL
"Hermit and King": an Old Irish colloquy.
"The Wanderer": an Old English elegy.
Malory's Morte d'Arthur: medieval hermit image.
Langland's Piers Plowman: medieval hermit model.
Frederick Buechner's Godric: medieval hermit path.
Weaver, Chalres P. The Hermit in English Literature from the Beginnings to 1660.

MODERN
La Fontaine's wicked hermits: 17th century tales
Romanticized 18th-century hermits in poetry:
    Parnell, Goldsmith, Beattie, Robinson, Coleridge
Walter Scott's Ivanhoe: medieval fraud hermit.
Hermit tales: Kipling, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Wilde, Gordon Smith, Ewing
Hugo: The Rat Hole (from Notre Dame de Paris)
Mark Twain: A hermit in The Prince and the Pauper
Sarah Orne Jewett: "Joanna, a woman hermit"
O. Henry: "To Him Who Waits" (short story)

20TH CENTURY
Edith Wharton's Hermit and the Wild Woman.
Kahlil Gibran's Hermit tales & On Talking," from The Prophet.
William Butler Yeats: four hermit poems
Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees
Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea: wizards as hermits.