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Title A mind apart : poems of melancholy, madness, and addiction / edited by Mark S. Bauer.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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 Moore Stacks  PR1195.M36 M56 2009    Available  ---
Description xxv, 404 pages ; 24 cm
Note Poems.
Summary Features more than 200 poems spanning seven centuries that reflect a wide range of mental states--from despondency and despair to melancholy, mania, and complete submersion into a world of heightened, original perception.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents From "The Complaint of Hoccleve: Hoccleve Remembers His Madness"; From "Anxious Thought" / Thomas Hoccleve (c. 1368/9 - c. 1426) -- I am Forsaken; Farewell this World / Charles d'Orleans (1394-1465) -- In Winter / William Dunbar (1460-1520) -- From "The Ship of Fools - Of Glotons and Dronkards" / Alexander Barclay (1475-1552) -- A Song of Ale; Petition to Have Her Leave to Die / Anonymous (published 1500) -- From "Despair" / Fulke Greville (1554-1628) -- Melancholy / Thomas Lodge (1557*1625) -- Sonnet 129 / William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- Upon the Death of SIr Albert Morton's Wife; A Hymn to My God in a Night of My Late Sickness / Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) -- Affliction / Sir John Davies (1569-1618) -- The Author's Abstract of Melancholy / Robert Burton (1557-1640) -- Melancholy / John Fletcher (1579-1625) and / or Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) -- "Sonnet XIX" from The Countess of Montgomery's Urania; "Sonnet VI" from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus / Lady Mary Wrroth (1568-c. 1652) -- The Mad Maid's Song / Robert Herrick (1591-1633) -- Alliction (I); Affliction (IV); The Collar / George Herbert (1593-1633) -- From "Samson Agonistes" ; "Methought I Saw my late espoused Saint" / John Milton (1608-1674) -- Upon Some Distemper of the Body / Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) -- A Discourse on Melancholy / Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1624-1674) -- Solitude / Thomas Traherne (1636-1674) -- On the Doctors' Telling Him that till He Left off Making Verses He Was Not Fit to be Discharged / James Carkesse (published 1679) -- On Melancholy / Anonymous (published 1658) -- The Spleen: A Pindaric Poem / Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720) -- The Extravagant Drunkard's Wish / Edward Ward (1667-1731) -- The Hurry of the Spirits, in a Fever and Nervous Disorders / Isaac Watts (1674-1748) -- From "Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: Night I" / Edward Young (1683-1765) -- In Praise of Laudanum / William Harrison (1685-1713) -- On seeing an Officer's Widow distracted, who had been driven to Despair by a long and fruitless; Solicitation for the Arrears of her Pension / Mary Barber (1685-1755) -- Loving Mad Tom / Anonymous (publish 1692) -- From "The Spleen. An Epistle to Mr. C-J-" / Mattew Green (1696-1737) -- Ode to Fear / William Collins (1721-1759) -- The Bedlamite / Thomas Mozeen (published 1768) -- Hymn to the Supreme Being, on Recovery from a Dangerous Fit of Illness from "Jubilate Agno," Fragment B / Christopher Smart (1722-1771) -- From "The Pleasures of Melancholy" / Thomas Warton (1728-1790) -- Lines Written During a Period of Insanity; The Shrubbery, Written in a Time of Affliction / William Cowper (1731-1800) -- A Receipt to Cure a Loves Fit / Anonymous (published 1733) -- Ode to Disappointment / Robert Fergusson (1750-1774) -- Strip Me Naked, or Royal Gin for Ever. A Picture / Anonymous (published 1751) -- Sunday, A Fragment / Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) -- On a Frightful Dream / John Codrington Bampfylde (1754-1796) -- "My Spectre around me night and day"; To Mr. Butts, Gr. Marborough St. London; from Letters, A Selection; Mary Mad Song / William Blake (1757-1827) -- From "The Farmer's Boy" / Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823) -- The Suicide's Argument; The Pains of Sleep; from "Dejectin: An Ode" / Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) -- From "The Lament of Tasso" / George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples / Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) -- I Am; Sonnet: I Am; The Ruins of despair; To Melancholy; Song / John Clare (1793-1864) -- Ode on Melancholy / John Keats (1795-1821) -- A Sonnet to Opium; celebrating its Virtues. Written at the Side of Julia, when the Author was Inspired with a Dose of Laudanum, more than Sufficient for two moderate Turks / Anonymous ("Orestes") (published 1796) -- "I welcome thee back again, Spirit of Song!" / Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839) -- from "The Asylum"; Lines Written in an Asylum; From "Ontological Episode of the Asylum / Hayden Carruth (1921- ) -- Neurotics / Philip Larkin (1922-1985) -- A Deep Breath at Dawn; Despair / Anthony Hecht (1923-1985) -- A Deep Breath at Dawn; Despair / Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) -- In Your War Dream; Cape Nothing; Letter to Logan from Milltown / Richard Hugo (1923-1982) -- The Payne Whitney Poems: What; The Payne Whitney Poems: Pastime; The Payne Whitney Poems: The Night / James Schuyler (1923-1991) -- Counting the Mad; The Man Closing Up / Donald Justice (1925-2004) -- From "Howl" / Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) -- Depression / Robert Bly (1926- ) -- Military Journalist / Wiley Clements (1928- ) -- from "The Double Image"; The Addict; Ringing the Bells / Anne Sexton (1928-1974) -- Anti-Totalitarian Manifesto for Eergreen Review / Carl Wolfe Solomon (1928- ) -- Peace, After Long Madness / Ned O'Gorman (1929- ) -- from "the Venice Poems, I"; Junk Nursery Rhymes / Stuart Z. Perkoff (1930-1974) -- Elm; Street Song / Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) --
Popular Songs: -- From American Mock-Bird (published 1801); The Mad Lover; Crazy Paul -- From Temple of Harmony (published 1801); Song -- From Choice Collection of Admired Songs (published 1805); Crazy Jane; The Death of Crazy Jane -- From Boston Musical Miscellany (published 1818); Nancy and Gin -- From Songster's Companion (published 1815); Mary Le More; Away with Melancholy -- From Songs for Ladies (published 1825); The Frantic Maid -- From The Muse, or The Flowers of Poetry (published 1827); Soliloquy on Smoking -- Grief / Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) -- From "In Memoriam" / Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- From "Empedocles on Etna" / Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) -- From "Balder.Part the First," Scenes XIII and XIV / Sydney Dobell (1824-1874) -- #126; #410; #435; #670; #1062 / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- Outre Mer / Henry Kendall (1839-1882) -- Just the Same; The Wound; In Tenebris II; Mad Judy / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- Melancholia / Robert Bridges (1844-1930) -- "No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief"; Carrion COmfort; "I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day" / Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) -- Neurasthenia / A. Mary F. Robinson (1857-1944) -- To One in Bedlam; Spleen / Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) -- Melancholy; Rain / Edward Thomas (1878-1917) -- Repression of war Experience; Haunted / Siegfried Sasson (1886-1967) -- Strange Hells; The Shame; To God; An Appeal for Death; For Mercy of Death / Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) -- Mental Cases / Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) -- Sorrow; "I know a hundred ways to die"; Menses / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- Resume / Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) -- Evening in the Sanitarium / Louise Bogan (1897-1970) -- The Idiot / Hart Crane (1899-1932) -- Ode to Fear / (John Orley) Allen Tate (1899-1979) -- From "Thoughts Suggested on a Thanksgiving; Day Passed at the State Lunatic Asylum; Worcester, Mass., by a Patient"; from Poetry of the Insane (Charles Mayos, editor; published 1930); Awakening; The Snow; The Cure / Anonymous (published 1930) -- Always Like This / Richard David Comstock (published 1930) -- The Portrait -- In a Dark Time; Her Longing; Lines Upon Leaving a Sanitarium / Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) -- Visits to Saint Elizabeths / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- from Interview with doctor Drink / J.V. (James Vincent) Cunningham (1911-1985) -- from "The Studies of Narcissus"; From Genesis, Book II / Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) -- Dreamsongs 172 / John Berryman (1914-1972) -- In the Ward: the Sacred Wood / Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) -- from "The Fall of the Magicians"; The Clinic / Weldon Kees (1914-1955) -- Out of the Sighs / Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) -- Visitors; Waking in the Blue; Home After Three Months Away; Unwanted / Robert Lowell (1917-1977) -- Songs of An Other / Robert Edward Duncan (1919-1988) -- To D-, Dead by Her Own Hand / Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) --
from The Journal of Saint Dympna (Earl "Pete" Nurmi, editor; published 1979) -- Medication / Lee Merrill -- "The ghost behemians of Meridel LeSueur" / Mary Coleman -- Institute at Christmas / John Appling Sours -- Shapeshifter Poems / Lucille Clifton (1936- ) -- Noon; Sequence I / Jim Harrison (1937- ) -- from Fredy Neptune, Book I / Les Murray (1938- ) -- Satan Syas / Sharon Olds (1942- ) -- Melancholy / Timothy Dekin (1943-2001) -- River Town Packin House Blues / Quincy Troupe (1943- ) -- Edith in Ann Arbor / Thomas P. Beresford (1946- ) -- Epigraph from Deeply Dug In / R. L. Rarth (1947- ) -- Having it Out with Melancholy / Jane Kenyon (1947-1995) -- Losses / Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- ) -- Sicilian Beachhead / Joseph Salemi (1948- ) -- The Administratin of Veterans / Aimee Grunberger (1951-1995) -- This Dark Side / Jimmy Santiago Baca (1952- ) -- Questions for Ecclesiastes; from "Transfiguration" / Mark Jarman (1952- ) -- Voice; Rorschach test; Certain Tall Buildings; Thanks Prayer at the Cove / Franz Wright (1953- ) -- Hyper; Melancholy Man / David Baker (1954- ) -- What You Hadn't / Michael Lauchlan (1954- ) -- Laguna Beach Breakdown; A Couple of Suicide Cases / Joe Bolton (1961-1990) -- Devices on Standby / Kelly Ann Malone (1963- ) -- Eulogy / Brian Turner (1967- ) -- Coke (The Real Thing) / Kevin Young (1970- ) -- from In the Realms of the Unreal: "Insane" Writings (John G.H.Oakes, editor; published 1991) -- By My Own Hand / Nicol -- The QUeen's Foreboding / Richard Beard -- Imbalance; The Patient / Jeff Holt (1971- ) -- E 9th Street / Ricky Cantor (1985- ) -- Letter to Sylvia Plath / Anne Stevenson (1933- )
Subject Melancholy -- Poetry.
Melancholy.
Genre/Form Poetry.
Subject Mental illness -- Poetry.
Mental illness.
English poetry.
English poetry.
American poetry.
American poetry.
Substance abuse -- Poetry.
Substance abuse.
Bipolar disorder -- Poetry.
Bipolar disorder.
People with bipolar disorder -- Poetry.
People with bipolar disorder.
Melancholy in literature.
Melancholy in literature.
Mental illness in literature.
Mental illness in literature.
Genre/Form Poetry.
Added Author Bauer, Mark S.
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