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Modernist Alchemy: Poetry and the Occult - Paul Ferguson - 06-26-2025

"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."

https://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Alchemy-Poetry-Timothy-Materer/dp/0801431468