Author: Robert Burton
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Category : Depression, Mental
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Author: Martin Corless-Smith
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ISBN: 9781848617582
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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In The Melancholy of Anatomy, his ninth collection of poetry, Martin Corless-Smith turns his attention towards ageing and mortality, and in particular to the death of his father. Shifting between formal verse and prose, from the metaphysical to the whimsical, from surreal to anecdotal, the book moves between poetic articulations as a mind might through memories, sifting to find anything to hold on to as everything flows and falls away. At times melancholic at times nihilistic at times luminous and dark, this collection asks questions about poetry, memory and what it is to have loved and lived. Praise for The Fool and The Bee: "Corless-Smith has an extraordinary eye for detail and this meticulously crafted collection is a pleasure to build a relationship with. It is the kind of book that demands attention, to spend pondering, to be read more than once...Wonderful stuff." -Andrew Taylor, Stride Magazine "There is something quite extraordinary in Martin Corless-Smith's handling of words, a lyrical hardness or punch that we're not used to and a kind of stagecraft...All glimpses of hope are spectacular fantasies cancelled by intrusions of reality, but there is also a delight in the writing itself, the extremely resourceful and virtuosic countering and elaborating that goes on, the singing and the dancing." -Peter Riley, The Fortnightly Review

Author: Robert Wrigley
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143123076
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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A powerful new collection from an award-winning poet Robert Wrigley has become one of his generation's most accomplished poets, renowned for his irony, power, and lucid style and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. Like its namesake—Robert Burton's seventeenth-century examination of human thoughts and emotions—Wrigley's new collection means to examine our world through the lens of melancholia. From imagined war memorials to insomniac chickens; from Descartes' lost daughter to a dreaming tree; from King Kong to Rush Limbaugh; and from Anna Karenina to a man named Lucy Doolin (short for Lucifer), these are poems that elegize and celebrate that most beautiful, exasperating, joyous, miserable, and perfectly imperfect of all creatures—the human being.

Author: Mary Ann Lund
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108838847
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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400 years after The Anatomy of Melancholy, this book guides readers through Renaissance medicine's disease of the mind.

Author: P J Keegan
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141941871
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1184

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This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet.

Author: Robert Burton
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Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 1064

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Author: Elizabeth Lynch Williams
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Christopher Smart
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 171

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Author: Robert Burton
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Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Author: Robert Wrigley
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143037798
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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One of his generation's most accomplished poets, Robert Wrigley is renowned for his ironic, powerful, and lucid style as well as his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. Earthly Meditations features nineteen original poems alongside a collection of sixty-one poems chosen from his first six books.