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The occult was a crucial influence on the Renaissance; and it obsessed the popular thinkers of the day. But with the Age of Reason; occultism was sidelined; only charlatans found any use for it. Occult ideas did not disappear; however; but rather went underground. It developed into a fruitful source of inspiration for many important artists. Works of brilliance; sometimes even of genius; were produced under its influence. In A Dark Muse; Lachman discusses the Enlightenment obsession with occult politics; the Romantic explosion; the futuristic occultism of the fin de siècle; and the deep occult roots of the modernist movement. Some of the writers and thinkers featured in this hidden history of western thought and sensibility are Emanuel Swedenborg; Charles Baudelaire; J. K. Huysmans; August Strindberg; William Blake; Goethe; Madame Blavatsky; H. G. Wells; Edgar Allan Poe; and Malcolm Lowry.