The Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T.S.Eliot, W.B.Yeats and the Occult - Tapa dura

In a radical revision of the conventional view that literary modernism belongs to 20th-century scientific materialism and that the mythological elements in such modernist works as The Waste Land and The Cantos are merely factitious devices, Surette documents the origins of modernist aesthetics in the occult, showing that Pound's early intimacy with Yeats was based largely on a shared interest in the occult sciences, and that The Cantos is a deeply occult work. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.