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 | | The Jungian ideas first, I think, entered the British poetic world with Christopher Caudwell; his Illusion and Reality(1936) is as much Jungian as Marxist; their big boom at the end of the sixties does not mean that they ever disappeared. |
 | | (There was an even earlier book, in 1934, by Maud Bodkin.) These ideas have influenced Edwin Muir, Kathleen Raine, Ted Hughes, Peter Redgrove, Penelope Shuttle, David Black, Michael Haslam, Maggie O'Sullivan, Tom Lowenstein, Norman Jope, and Elisabeth Bletsoe, amongst others. |
 | | My guess (after reading Henry Treece's magazine of the 1940s, Transformation) is that Jung represents the natural ideology of British poets steeped in poetry, and that these ideas creep back everywhere that the university English faculties fall silent for a moment. |
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