Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Hermetic poetry and Late modernism
2. Cunning man: Ezra Pound and secret wisdom
3. Maximal extent: Charles Olson and C G Jung
4. Shamanism and the poetics of Late modernism: J H Prynne
5. The spirit of poetry: Heidegger, Trakl, Derrida and Prynne
6. Obscurity, fragmentation and the uncanny in Prynne and Celan

About the Author

Anthony Mellors is a Research Fellow in English at the University of Central England