Nightingale’s Melancholia
Nightingale’s Melancholia

Author: AEDO

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2022-10-20

Total Pages: 45

ISBN-13: 1669826112

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WE OFTEN HAVE TOO MANY EMOTIONS TO PROCESS, THAT’S PERHAPS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN. THIS BOOK IS THUS THE PORTRAYAL OF MY HUMANITY IN VERSE. WHILE SOME OF MY POEMS ARE FROM MY OWN EMOTIONS, OTHERS ARE FROM WHAT I PERCEIVE OF THE WORLD AS AN EMPATH. I DO HOPE YOU LIKE READING BETWEEN THE LINES, BECAUSE A LOT OF THE VERSES IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES WOULD REQUIRE THAT. HOPE YOU ENJOY!

Skylark Meets Meadowlark
Skylark Meets Meadowlark

Author: Thomas C. Gannon

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 0803226160

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A Native rereading of both British Romanticism and mainstream Euro-American ecocriticism, this cross-cultural transatlantic study of literary imaginings about birds sets the agenda for a more sophisticated and nuanced ecocriticism. Lakota critic Thomas C. Gannon explores how poets and nature writers in Britain and Native America have incorporated birds into their writings. He discerns an evolution in humankind's representations--and attitudes toward--other species by examining the avian images and tropes in British Romantic and Native American literatures, and by considering how such literary tr.

Reading Walter de la Mare
Reading Walter de la Mare

Author: Walter de la Mare

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2021-06-15

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0571347142

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Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was one of the best-loved English poets of the twentieth century, his verse admired by contemporaries including Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot. This volume presents a new selection of de la Mare's finest poems, including perennial favourites such as 'Napoleon', 'Fare Well' and 'The Listeners', for a twenty-first-century audience. The poems are accompanied by commentaries by William Wootten, which build up a portrait of de la Mare's life, loves and friendships with the likes of Hardy, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas and Katherine Mansfield. They also point out the fascinating references to literature, folklore and the natural world that embroider the verse.

Nature
Nature

Author: Marie Addyman

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1843846020

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A journey through texts on, about, or reflecting our experience of the natural world.

The Beauty of Melancholy and British Women Writers, 1670-1720
The Beauty of Melancholy and British Women Writers, 1670-1720

Author: Laura Alexander

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-11-15

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1527543560

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This book considers melancholy language in representative works by several British women writers in late Stuart England. To understand how these women writers understood and reframed the discussion about melancholy and women’s experience of suffering in their art, it turns to the twentieth-century French feminist theorist Julia Kristeva, whose radical work on melancholy in Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia (1989) provides an alternative psychoanalytic perspective for considering melancholy discourse created by women experiencing alienation, depression, and anguish in earlier periods. Kristeva offers a theoretical lens for understanding loss as a significant and ongoing perspective on life experience that finds expression through art and language. This text argues that early women writers created a new expressive mode, revising existing models to account for their own losses during a time of cultural and political transitioning in England. These writers provide a melancholy aesthetic in their works or depict depressed female figures reflecting artistic angst and a new discourse within language for articulating pain.

Figures of Memory
Figures of Memory

Author: C. Armstrong

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Published: 2009-04-23

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13:

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Through incisive readings of ten poets from William Wordsworth to Alice Oswald, this book shows how poets have engaged with the possibilities and pitfalls of memory. Linking poets’ uses of personal, aesthetic, and collective memory, as well as history, the book provides a new critical template for understanding how literature engages with the past.

The Secret Wound
The Secret Wound

Author: Marion Wells

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2007-01-03

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780804767446

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This book offers a new reading of early modern romance in the light of historically contemporary accounts of mind, and specifically the medical tradition of love-melancholy. The book argues that the medical profile of the melancholic lover provides an essential context for understanding the characteristic patterns of romance: narrative deferral, epistemological uncertainty, and the endless quest for a quasi-phantasmic beloved. Unlike many recent studies of romance, this book establishes a detailed historical basis for investigating the psychological structure of romance. Wells begins by tracing the development of the medical disorder first known in the Latin west as amor hereos (lovesickness) from its earliest roots in Greek and Arabic medicine to its translation into the Latin medical tradition. Drawing on this detailed historical material, the book considers three important early modern romances: Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, and Spenser's The Faerie Queene, concluding with a brief consideration of the significance of this literary and medical legacy for Romanticism. Most broadly, the interdisciplinary nature of this study allows the author to investigate the central critical problem of early modern subjectivity in substantially new ways.

"And Never Know the Joy"

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-08-29

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9401203407

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“And Never Know the Joy” : Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry promises the reader much to enjoy and to reflect on: riddles and sex games; the grammar of relationships; the cunning psychology of bodily fantasies; sexuality as the ambiguous performance of words; the allure of music and its instruments; the erotics of death and remembrance, are just a few of the initial themes that emerge from the twenty-five articles to be found in this volume, with many an invitation “to seize the day”. Reproduction, pregnancy, and fear; discredited and degraded libertines; the ventriloquism of sexual objects; the ease with which men are reduced to impotence by the carnality of women; orgasm and melancholy; erotic mysticism and religious sexuality; the potency and dangers of fruit and flowers; the delights of the recumbent male body and of dancing girls; the fertile ritual use of poetic texts; striptease and revolution; silent women reclaimed as active vessels, are amongst the many engaging topics that emerge out of the ongoing and entertaining scholarly discussion of sex and eroticism in English poetry.

Nightingale
Nightingale

Author: Bethan Roberts

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2021-11-11

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1789144752

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A melodious paean to the natural history and symbolic meaning of the most prized, poetized, and mythologized of songbirds. The nightingale has a unique place in cultural history: the most prized of songbirds, it has inspired more poems than any other creature, and it is also the most mythologized of birds. Nightingale juxtaposes the bird of poetry, music, myth, and lore with the living bird of wood and scrubland, unpicking the entangled relationship between them. Covering a huge range of poets, musicians, artists, nature writers, and natural historians—from Aristotle, Keats, and Vera Lynn to Bob Dylan—Nightingale charts our fascination through history with this nondescript yet melodious little brown bird. It also documents the nightingale’s disappearance from British breeding grounds and the implications this has for nightingale conservation.

British Romanticism and the Archive
British Romanticism and the Archive

Author: David Kerler

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-06-06

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 311077562X

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Taking its cue from Jacques Derrida’s concept of le mal d’archive, this study explores the interrelations between the experience of loss, melancholia, archives and their (self-)destructive tendencies, surfacing in different forms of spectrality, in selected poetry of British Romanticism. It argues that the British Romantics were highly influenced by the period’s archival fever – manifesting itself in various historical, material, technological and cultural aspects – and (implicitly) reflected and engaged with these discourses and materialities/medialities in their works. This is scrutinized by focusing on two basal, closely related facets: the subject’s feverish desire to archive and the archive’s (self-)destructive tendencies, which may also surface in an ambivalent, melancholic relishing in the archived object’s presence within its absence. Through this new theoretical perspective, details and coherence previously gone unnoticed shall be laid bare, ultimately contributing to a new and more profound understanding of British Romanticism(s). It will be shown that the various discursive and material manifestations of archives and archival practices not only echo the period’s technological-cultural and historical developments along with its incisive experiencing of loss, but also fundamentally determine Romantic subjectivity and aesthetics.