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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Materer, Timothy,
• MitwirkendeR: Materer, Timothy,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1996
• Udgivelsesår: 2018
• Sprog: English
• Fysisk beskrivelse: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501728570; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501728570
• Adgang: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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, while Duncan and Merrill hunt for a lost understanding of sexual identity which will allow for androgyny and homosexuality.