Subliminal Histories: Psychological Experimentation in the Poetry and Poetics of Frederic W. H. Myers
19 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century April 8, 2011 Helen Groth 2 citations
The pursuit of poetry and the new science of the mind were inseparable strands of the seminal work of the late nineteenth-century poet, psychological and psychical researcher Frederic W. H. Myers. An early passion for classical prosody translated in later life into a complex, nuanced poetry devoted to the performative externalization of intense psychological experiences of various kinds. Myers...