Description
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.
Author: Timothy Materer
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 01/11/1996
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.31w x 0.85d
ISBN13: 9780801431463
ISBN10: 0801431468
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Poetry | General
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 20th Century
About the Author
Timothy Materer is Professor of English at the University of Missouri. He is the author, most recently, of James Merrill's Apocalypse, also from Cornell.