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THE VIEW FROM THE TOWER Theodore Ziolkowski The View from the Tower ORIGINS OF AN ANTIMODERNIST IMAGE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, N. J. Copyright © 1998 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Chichester, West Sussex All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Catahging-in-Publication Data Ziolkowski, Theodore. The view from the tower : origins of an antimodernist image / Theodore Ziolkowski. p. cm. includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-691-05907-1 (alk. paper) 1. Modernism (Literature) 2. Literature, Modern— History and criticism. 3. Literary landmarks. 4. Towers. I. Title. PN56.M54Z56 1998 809'.933112—dc21 97-52100 This book has been composed in Garamond and Caslon Designed by Jan Lilly Composed by Eileen Reilly Princeton University Press books are printed on acid-free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources http://pup.princeton.edu Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 21 FOR MY BROTHER John Edmund Ziolkowski CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix PREFACE xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii CHAPTER ONE The Proud Towers 3 CHAPTER TWO William Butler Teats: The Tower of Visions 41 CHAPTER THREE Robinson Feffers: The Tower beyond Time 69 CHAPTER FOUR Rainer Maria Rilke: The Tower of Desire 97 CHAPTER FIVE Carl Gustav Fung: The Tower of the Psyche 131 CHAPTER SIX The Broken Towers 149 NOTES 175 INDEX 191 ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel 4 2. Babylon of Nebuchadnezzar II 9 3. Saint Barbara with Tower 16 4. Campanile of Sant'ApoUinare in Classe, Ravenna 18 5. Bamberg Cathedral 20 6. Chartres Cathedral 20 7. Minster of Our Gracious Lady, Ulm 21 8. Athanasius Kircher, Turris Babel 22 9. Hermann Hugo, Pia Desideria 24 10. Samuel Palmer, The Lonely Tower 24 11. Ivory-tower reliquary 32 12. Thoor Ballylee 42 13. Hawk Tower 70 14. Hawk Tower and Tor House 76 15. Robinson Jeffers at Hawk Tower 92 16. Chateau de Muzot 98 17. Auguste Rodin, La Tour du Travail 104 18. Tower of St.-Niklaas, Veurne 107 19. Rainer Maria Rilke on the balcony at Muzot 120 20. The first tower at Bollingen 132 21. The tower-complex at Bollingen 140 22. Carl Gustav Jung at Bollingen 147 23. The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin 150 24. The tower at Sissinghurst Castle 166 25. Prayer tower at Oral Roberts University 173

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