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Modernist Alchemy

Poetry and the Occult

By: Timothy Materer

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Modernist Alchemy

Poetry and the Occult

By: 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.

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Cornell University Press

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1501728571

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9781501728570

The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn

1915–1924

By: Ezra Pound,Timothy Materer

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The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn

1915–1924

By: Ezra Pound,Timothy Materer

This volume provides a first-hand survey of the arts and literature during a crucial period in modern culture, 1915–1924. Pound was then associated with such germinal magazines as BLAST, The Little Review, The Egoist, and Poetry; he was discovering or publicizing writers such as Robert Frost, Hilda Doolittle, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce; and he was championing the painters Wyndham Lewis and William Wadsworth as well as the sculptors Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Constantin Brancusi. Pound wrote to John Quinn—a New York lawyer, an expert in business law, and a collector of unusual taste and discrimination—about these artists and many more, urging him to support their journals, collect their manuscripts, and buy and exhibit their paintings and sculptures. Quinn at one time owned manuscripts of Ulysses and The Waste Land, Brancusi’s sculpture Mlle. Pogany, and Picasso’s painting Three Musicians. Yet he was often skeptical about the value of new schools of art, such as Vorticism, and disturbed by the outspokenness of authors such as Joyce. Pound’s letters are unusually tactful when he counters Quinn’s doubts and explains the premises of experimental art. Pound’s letters to Quinn are touched with his characteristic humor and wordplay and are especially notable for their lucidity of expression, engendered by Pound’s deep respect for Quinn.

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276

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Duke University Press

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0822311321

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9780822311324

James Merrill's Apocalypse

By: Timothy Materer

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James Merrill's Apocalypse

By: Timothy Materer

Materer interprets Merrill's body of work from the perspective of his epic The Changing Light at Sandover and shows that in his earliest poems and in the volumes preceding The Changing Light, Merrill repeatedly expressed his fear of nuclear holocaust and his sense that some momentous revelation was near at hand. Materer demonstrates how apocalyptic motifs also inspire Late Settings, The Inner Room, and A Scattering of Salts."--BOOK JACKET.

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Cornell University Press

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0801437601

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9780801437601

Modernist Alchemy

Poetry and the Occult

By: Timothy Materer

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Poetry and the Occult

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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.

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Cornell University Press

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0801431468

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9780801431463

James Merrill's Apocalypse

By: Timothy Materer

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The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn

1915–1924

By: Timothy Materer

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1915–1924

By: Timothy Materer

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Duke University Press

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0822382903

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The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn, 1915-1924

By: Ezra Pound

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The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn, 1915-1924

By: Ezra Pound

This volume provides a first-hand survey of the arts and literature during a crucial period in modern culture, 1915-1924. Pound was then associated with such germinal magazines as BLAST, The Little Review, The Egoist, and Poetry; he was discovering or publicizing writers such as Robert Frost, Hilda Doolittle, T.S. Eliot, and James Joyce; and he was championing the painters Wyndham Lewis and William Wadsworth as well as the sculptors Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Constantin Brancusi. Pound wrote to John Quinn-a New York lawyer, an expert in business law, and a collector of unusual.

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6612919930

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Modernist Alchemy

Modernist Alchemy

The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn

The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn

James Merrill's Apocalypse

James Merrill's Apocalypse

Modernist Alchemy

Modernist Alchemy

James Merrill's Apocalypse

James Merrill's Apocalypse

The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn

The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn

The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn, 1915-1924

The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn, 1915-1924

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