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The view from the tower

Paperback • 1998 • English

The view from the tower: origins of an antimodernist image

By Theodore Ziolkowski

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About the book

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 biographical circumstances that motivated the four writers to choose their unusual retreats. From the ziggurats of ancient Mesopotamia to the ivory towers of t...Show more

Biography: historical, political and military
Autobiography: historical, political and military
Biography: philosophy and social sciences

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ISBN

9780691059075

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

1998

Language

English

Original title

The view from the tower

Format

Paperback

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