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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bauer, Mark S., editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Melancholy--Poetry.

Melancholy.

Mental illness--Poetry.

Mental illness.

English 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.

Mental illness in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This anthology offers comfort for those who suffer from mental illness and those who struggle to understand it. Gathering more than 200 poems from across six centuries, it presents a remarkably wide ranging selection of poetry, thoughtfully framed, while also providing a critical-clinical introduction that asks what we mean by "madness" and "mental illness".

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Poems; Thomas Hoccleve (c. 1368/9-c. 1426); from "The Complaint of Hoccleve: Hoccleve Remembers His Madness"; from "Anxious Thought"; Charles d'Orleans (1394-1465); I am Forsaken; Farewell this World; William Dunbar (1460-1520); In Winter; Alexander Barclay (1475-1552); from "The Ship of Fools-Of Glotons and Dronkards"; Anonymous (published 1500); A Song of Ale; Petition to Have Her Leave to Die; Fulke Greville (1554-1628); from "Despair"; Thomas Lodge (1557-1625); Melancholy; William Shakespeare (1564-1616); Sonnet 129; Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)

Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's WifeA Hymn to My God in a Night of My Late Sickness; Sir John Davies (1569-1618); Affliction; Robert Burton (1577-1640); The Author's Abstract of Melancholy; John Fletcher (1579-1625) and/or Thomas Middleton (1580-1627); Melancholy; Lady Mary Wroth (1586-c. 1652); "Sonnet XIX" from The Countess of Montgomery's Urania; "Sonnet VI" from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus; Robert Herrick (1591-1674); The Mad Maid's Song; George Herbert (1593-1633); Affliction (I); Affliction (IV); The Collar; John Milton (1608-1674); from "Samson Agonistes"

"Methought I saw my late espoused Saint"Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672); Upon Some Distemper of the Body; Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1624-1674); A Discourse on Melancholy; Thomas Traherne (1636-1674); Solitude; James Carkesse (published 1679); On the Doctors' Telling Him that till He Left off Making Verses He Was Not Fit to be Discharged; Anonymous (published 1658); On Melancholy; Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720); The Spleen: A Pindaric Poem; Edward Ward (1667-1731); The Extravagant Drunkard's Wish; Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

The Hurry of the Spirits, in a Fever and Nervous DisordersEdward Young (1683-1765); from "Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: Night I"; William Harrison (1685-1713); In Praise of Laudanum; Mary Barber (1685-1755); 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; Anonymous (published 1692); Loving Mad Tom; Matthew Green (1696-1737); from "The Spleen. An Epistle to Mr. C

J

"; William Collins (1721-1759); Ode to Fear; Thomas Mozeen (published 1768); The Bedlamite

Christopher Smart (1722-1771)Hymn to the Supreme Being, on Recovery from a Dangerous Fit of Illness; from "Jubilate Agno," Fragment B; Thomas Warton (1728-1790); from "The Pleasures of Melancholy"; William Cowper (1731-1800); Lines Written During a Period of Insanity; The Shrubbery, Written in a Time of Affliction; Anonymous (published 1733); A Receipt to Cure a Loves Fit; Robert Fergusson (1750-1774); Ode to Disappointment; Anonymous (published 1751); Strip Me Naked, or Royal Gin for Ever. A Picture; Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770); Sunday, A Fragment; John Codrington Bampfylde (1754-1796)

On a Frightful Dream

Notes:

Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 16, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-971444-4

0-19-772287-3

0-19-045063-0

OCLC:

1410955483