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Modernist Alchemy : Poetry and the Occult
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Modernist Alchemy : Poetry and the Occult Hardcover - 1996

by Materer, Timothy

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  • Title Modernist Alchemy : Poetry and the Occult
  • Author Materer, Timothy
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca
  • Date 1996-01-11
  • Features Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 48355840-6
  • ISBN 9780801431463 / 0801431468
  • Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.31 x 0.85 in (23.62 x 16.03 x 2.16 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Occultism in literature, American poetry - 20th century - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95034932
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.509

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From the rear cover

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, Indian mysticism, the kabbalah, and gnosticism. All of these poets, Timothy Materer says, approached the occult with a modernist sophistication and a self-consciousness that are not entirely credulous nor entirely skeptical. 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. Materer ends with Merrill, whose attempt to suspend both doubt and belief marks the culmination of the poetic style initiated by Yeats.

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.

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