Poetry and phantasy
In this book the author examines the relation between historical materialism and psychoanalysis for the understanding of literature. He analyzes central poems in the canonical tradition, poems of courtly love, Romantic poetry, and the modernism and post-modernism of Eliot and Pound.
227 p. 22 cm
9780521355988, 0521355982
1014978763
1. Poetry and psychoanalysis; 2. Ideology and phantasy in poetry; 3. Foucault, Ovid, Donne: versions of sexuality, ancient and modern; 4. Courtly love and idealisation; 5. The Augustan father; 6. Romantic narcissism; 7. Darwinian crises; 8. Modernism/postmodernism: Eliot/Pound; 9. Postcript.