The Works of Aleister Crowley, Volume I

About this book

Before Aleister Crowley became a famous and controversial occult figure, he was an ambitious poet intent on placing his work before the literary world.

Volume I of his collected works brings together early writing shaped by mythology, desire, religious rebellion and an appetite for grand symbolic forms. The poems can be uneven and extravagantly theatrical, yet they reveal the imaginative language that fed his later esoteric thought. Reading them alongside his subsequent books makes the development of his private mythology easier to follow.