ABSTRACT
Maud Bodkin (1875-1967) published Archetypal Patterns in Poetry: psychological studies of imagination (Oxford) in 1934, but many years passed before this remarkable work received the recognition it deserved. Preparing his study of modern criticism, The Armed Vision (New York, 1948), Stanley Edgar Hyman was able to find only a few reviews and little discussion of Miss Bodkin's book in either England or America. Since then, Archetypal Patterns in Poetry has been acknowledged as a classic of modern criticism and a pioneering effort in the application of psycho-analytical ideas to literary criticism. The great influence on Maud Bodkin was Carl Jung (see above, pp. 174-88) with whom she studied for a while in Zurich in the 1920S, though like Jung himself she owed a good deal to Freud.
