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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 the fin de si cle, the author traces the emergence of a variety of symbolic associations with the proud towers of the past, ranging from spirituality and intellect to sexuality and sequestration.But in every case the tower served both literally and symbolically as a refuge from the urban modernism with whose values the four writers found themselves at odds. While the classic modernists (Eliot, Woolf, Hart Crane) often singled out the broken tower as the image of a crumbling past, these writers actualized their powerful visions: Yeats and Rilke moved into medieval towers in Ireland and Switzerland, while Jeffers and Jung built themselves towers at Carmel and Bollingen as secluded spaces in which to cultivate the traditions and values they cherished. The last chapter traces this perseverance of the ancient image through its heyday in the twenties and into the present, where it has undergone renewal, institutionalization, and parody.
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Honorable Mention for the 1999 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Literature and Language, Association of American Publishers
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| List of Illustrations | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Ch. 1 | The Proud Towers | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | William Butler Yeats: The Tower of Visions | 41 |
| Ch. 3 | Robinson Jeffers: The Tower beyond Time | 69 |
| Ch. 4 | Rainer Maria Rilke: The Tower of Desire | 97 |
| Ch. 5 | Carl Gustav Jung: The Tower of the Psyche | 131 |
| Ch. 6 | The Broken Towers | 149 |
| Notes | 175 | |
| Index | 191 |
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