Sadržaj:
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. A definition of myth
  • II. Freud and Jung on myth: the psychoanalytic background
  • III. Myth and the unconscious
  • W. B. Yeats: Myth as psychic structure
  • Ezra Pound: The voice from Hades
  • T. S. Eliot: The retreat from myth
  • W. H. Auden: Myth as analytic instrument
  • IV. Myth and ritual
  • 'The golden bough': rite as social expression
  • W. B. Yeats: prophecy and control
  • Ezra Pound: Rebirth and reversion
  • T. S. Eliot: fulfillment through sacrifice
  • W. H. Auden:
  • V. Myth and history
  • The cyclic view: Giambatista Vico and Oswald Spengler
  • W. B. Yeats: History as symbol
  • Ezra Pound: The messianic vision
  • T. S. Eliot:
  • W. H. Auden: Unconscious forces in history
  • VI. Evolving mythologies compared
  • Index