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| Modernist Alchemy: Poetry and the Occult | 
 enlarge | Author: Timothy Materer
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1679409
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 218
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0801431468
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.50937
EAN: 9780801431463
ASIN: 0801431468
Publication Date: January 1996
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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.
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Great insight into some things other people don't talk about March 23, 1998
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I liked the chapter on H.D. in particular because Materer was able to reveal numerous sources in her later writing. He also drew the parallels in her studies and talked about her attitudes towards the two major figures in Psychology in her day, Freud and Jung. A Jungian analysis of H.D. would seem outrageous given her stated opinion, but Materer convincingly shows that she may have avoided him because their studies were so similar. He also discusses Yeats, Pound, Stevens, Merrill.
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