Modernist alchemy : poetry and the occult /
The occult has been a source of both ideas and images for modern poets from W.B. Yeats to James Merrill. Poets as diverse as Ezra Pound, H.D., Sylvia Plath, Robert Duncan, and Ted Hughes were both fascinated by, and skeptical of, such phenomena as alchemy and astrology, Ouija boards and Tarot cards,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1995.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.