SOURCE: "Fishing the Deep Sea: Archetypal Patterns in Thomas' 'Ballad of the Long-legged Bait'," in Modern Poetry Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2, Autumn, 1975, pp. 102-14.
In the following essay, Ferguson contends that Dylan Thomas's sea voyage poem "Ballad of the Long-legged Bait" relates a "quest for [the integration of personality" and features a selection of Jungian archetypes.]
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