The View from the Tower Origins of an Antimodernist Image |
|
| Author:
| Ziolkowski, Theodore |
| Series title: | Princeton Legacy Library |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-60475-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2014 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
|
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
|
Immediately after World War I, four major European and American poets and thinkers--W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, R. M. Rilke, and C. G. Jung--moved into towers as their principal habitations. Taking this striking coincidence as its starting point, this book sets out to locate modern turriphilia in its cultural context and to explore the biographi
Immediately after World War I, four major European and American poets and thinkers--W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, R. M. Rilke, and C. G. Jung--moved into towers as their principal habitations. Taking this striking coincidence as its starting point, this book sets out to locate modern turriphilia in its cultural context and to explore the biographi