Author | Robert Bly |
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Language | English |
Subject | Iron John |
Publisher | Addison-Wesley |
Publication date | 1990 |
Media type | |
Pages | 268 |
ISBN | 978-0-201-51720-0 |
Iron John: A Book About Men is a book by American poet Robert Bly. It is an exegesis of Iron John, a parable belonging to the Grimms' Fairy Tales (1812) by German folklorists Brothers Grimm about a boy maturing into adulthood with help of the wild man.
Published in 1990 by Addison-Wesley, the book is Bly's best-known work,[1] having spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list and went on to become a pioneering work in the mythopoetic men's movement.[2]