| Author/Contributor(s): | Materer, Timothy |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Date: | 01/11/1996 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.