 | Modernist Alchemy: Poetry and the Occult Subjects: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Occultism in literature; Alchemy in literature; Modernism (Literature); 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... 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. |
