| Front | Maud Bodkin |
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| Back | 1875-1967 critic her book Archetypal patterns in poetry 1934 was the first and most important English work on literature to emerge from the psychological school of C.G. Jung applying Jung's concept of the collective unconscious to the reading of Coleridge's the time of the ancient..., Bodkin discerned underlying patterns and cycles of death and rebirth also to be found in ancient literatures and religions surveying the endurance of these and other archetypes in poetry and drama from Sophocles to Eliot, she argued that poetry as the objectification of the universal forces of our nature, allows special access to the collective unconscious of the race. in a sequel, studies of type images in poetry, religion and philosophy 1951, she develops these Jungian theories in the direction of a synthesis between poetry and religion. Amy Maud Bodkin (1875 in Chelmsford, Essex – 1967 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire) was an English classical scholar, writer on mythology, and literary critic. She is best known for her 1934 book Archetypal Patterns in Poetry: Psychological Studies of Imagination (London: Oxford University Press). It is generally taken to be a major work in applying the theories of Carl Jung to literature. Bodkin's other main works are The Quest for Salvation in an Ancient and a Modern Play (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1941) and Studies of Type-Images in Poetry, Religion and Philosophy (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1951). She lectured at Homerton College, Cambridge from 1902 to 1914. |
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