Mind Apart Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction

Name: Mind Apart Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction
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ISBN: 9780195336412

ISBN-10: 0195336410

ISBN-13: 9780195336412

Edition: 2008

Authors: Mark S. Bauer

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"Much madness is divinest sense," wrote Emily Dickinson, "And much sense the starkest madness." The idea that poetry and madness are deeply intertwined, and that madness sometimes leads to the most divine poetry, has been with us since antiquity. In his critical and clinical introduction to this splendid anthology--the first of its kind--psychiatrist and poet Mark S. Bauer considers mental disorders from multiple perspectives and challenges us to broaden our outlook. He has selected more than 200 poems from across seven centuries that reflect a wide range mental states--from despondency and despair to melancholy, mania, and complete submersion into a world of heightened, original…

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List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/14/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


PoemsThomas Hoccleve (1368/9-c.1426)


from ""Hoccleve Remembers His Madness""from ""Anxious Thought""Charles d''Orleans (1394-1465)


I am ForsakenFarewell this WorldWilliam Dunbar (1460-1520)


In WinterAlexander Barclay (1475-1552)


from ""Ship of Fools""Anonymous (published 1500)


A Song of AleAnonymous (published 1500)


Petition to Have Her Leave to DieFulke Greville (1554-1628)


from ""Despair""Thomas Lodge (1557-1625)


MelancholyWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616)


Sonnet 129


Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)


Upon the De