Modernist Alchemy : : Poetry and the Occult /

Modernist Alchemy : : Poetry and the Occult / / Timothy Materer.

Modernist Alchemy takes a close look at the work of twentieth-century poets whose use of the occult constitutes a recovery of discarded beliefs and modes of thought: Yeats and Plath try to dismiss conventional religion, Hughes captures a sense of adventure, H.D. seeks to liberate repressed concepts,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Materer, Timothy,
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Materer, Timothy,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1996
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations of Works Cited in the Text
  • Introduction: Literary Occultism
  • 1. Daemonic Images: From W. B. Yeats to Ezra Pound
  • 2. Ezra Pound as Magus
  • 3. T. S. Eliot: Occultism as Heresy
  • 4. H.D.'s Hermeticism: Between Jung and Freud
  • 5. Robert Duncan and the Mercurial Self
  • 6. Sylvia Plath: Occultism as Source and Symptom
  • 7. Ted Hughes's Alchemical Quest
  • 8. James Merrill's Romantic Unconscious
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Consulted
  • Index

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