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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 perception. Featuring such poets as George Herbert, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, Ann Sexton, Weldon Kees, Lucille Clifton, Jane Kenyon, and many others, A Mind Apart has much to offer those who suffer from mental illness, those who work to understand it, and all those who value the poetry that has come to us from the heights and depths of human experience.

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Author:   Mark S Bauer
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 15.60cm
Weight:   0.712kg
ISBN:  

9780195336412

ISBN 10:   0195336410
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   03 March 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

"Preface Introduction Poems Thomas Hoccleve (1368/9-c.1426) from ""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 ""Ship of Fools"" Anonymous (published 1500) A Song of Ale Anonymous (published 1500) 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 Wife A Hymn to God in a Night of My Late Sickness 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 (1586-1652) Sonnet VI from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus Sonnet XIX from The Countess of Montgomery's Urania 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 Ann 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 Disorders Edward 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 from ""Jubliate Agno"" 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 Love's 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 William Blake (1757-1828) My Spectre around me night and day To Mr. Butts, Gr. Marlborough St. London; from Letters, A Selection Mary Mad Song William Bloomfield (1766-1823) from ""The Farmer's Boy"" Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) The Suicide's Argument The Pains of Sleep from ""Dejection: An Ode"" Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) from ""Lament of Tasso"" Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples John Clare (1793-1864) I Am Sonnet: I Am The Ruins of Despair To Melancholy Song John Keats (1795-1821) Ode on Melancholy Anonymous (""Orestes"") (published 1796) 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 Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839) I welcome the back again, Spirit of Song Popular Songs American Mock-Bird (published 1801) The Mad Lover Crazy Paul Temple of Harmony (published 1801) Song Choice Collection (published 1805) Crazy Jane The Death of Crazy Jane Boston Musical Miscellany (published 1815) Nancy and Gin Songster's Companion (published 1815) Mary LeMore Songs for Ladies (published 1825) The Frantic Maid Muse, or The Flowers of Poetry(published 1827) Soliloquy on Smoking Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) Grief Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) from ""In Memoriam: III, XIV, XIX"" Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) from ""Empedocles on Aetna"" Sydney Dobell (1824-1874) from ""Balder. Part the First. Scenes XIII and XIV"" Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) #126 #410 #435 #670 #1062 Henry Kendall (1839-1882) Outre Mer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Just the Same The Wound In Tenebris II Mad Judy Robert Bridges (1844-1930) Melancholia Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief Carrion Comfort I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day A. Mary F. Robinson (1857-1944) Neurasthenia Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) To one in Bedlam Spleen Edward Thomas (1878-1917) Melancholy Rain Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) Repression of War Experience Haunted Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) Strange Hells The Shame To God An Appeal for Death For Mercy of Death Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Mental Cases Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) Sorrow I Know 100 Ways to Die Menses Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) Resume Louise Bogan (1897-1970) Evening in the Sanitarium Hart Crane (1899-1932) The Idiot (John Orley) Allen Tate (1899-1979) Ode to Fear Anonymous (published 1930) from ""Thoughts Suggested on a Thanksgiving Day Passed at the State Lunatic Asylum, Worcester, Mass. by a Patient"" from Poetry of the Insane (Dr. Charles Mayos, editor; published 1930) Awakening The Snow The Cure Richard David Comstock (published 1930) Always Like This Stanley Kuntiz (1905-2006) The Portrait Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) In a Dark Time Her Longing Lines Upon Leaving a Sanitarium Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) Visits to Saint Elizabeth's J. V. (James Vincent) Cunningham (1911-1985) from ""Interview with Doctor Drink"" Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) from ""The Studies of Narcissus"" from Genesis, Book II John Berryman (1914-1972) Dreamsongs 172 Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) In the Ward: The Sacred Wood Weldon Kees (1914-1955) from ""The Fall of the Magicians"" The Clinic Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Out of the Sighs Robert Lowell (1917-1977) Visitors Waking in the Blue Home after Three Months Away Unwanted Robert Edward Duncan (1919-1988) Songs of An Other Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) To D-, Dead by Her Own Hand Hayden Carruth (1921- ) from ""The Asylum"" Lines Written in an Asylum from ""Ontological Episode of the Asylum"" Philip Larkin (1922-1985) Neurotics Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) A Deep Breath at Dawn Despair Richard Hugo (1923-1982) In Your War Dream Cape Nothing Letter to Logan from Milltown James Schuyler (1923-1991) The Payne Whitney Poems: What The Payne Whitney Poems: Pastime The Payne Whitney Poems: The Night Donald Justice (1925-2004) Counting the Mad The Man Closing Up Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) from ""Howl"" Robert Bly (1926- ) Depression Wiley Clements (1928- ) Military Journalist Ann Sexton (1928-1974) from ""The Double Image"" Addict Ringing the Bells Carl Wolfe Solomon (1928- ) Antitotalitarian Manifesto for Evergreen Review Ned O'Gorman (1929- ) Peace, After Long Madness Stuart Z. Perkoff (1930-1974) from ""The Venice Poems; I:4"" Junk Nursery Rhymes Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) Elm Street Song from The Journal of Saint Dympna (Earl ""Pete"" Nurmi, editor; published 1979) Lee Merrill Medication Mary Coleman The ghost behemians of Meridel LeSueur John Appling Sours Institute at Christmas Lucille Clifton (1936- ) shapeshifter poems Jim Harrison (1937- ) Noon Les Murray (1938- ) from Fredy Neptune, Book I Sharon Olds (1942- ) Satan Says Timothy Dekin (1943-2001) Melancholy Quincy Troupe (1943- ) River Town Packin House Blues Thomas P. Beresford (1946- ) Edith in Ann Arbor Robert L. Barth (1947- ) Epigraph from Deeply Dug In Jane Kenyon (1947-1995) Having it Out with Melancholy Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- ) Losses Joseph Salemi (1947- ) Sicilian Beachead Aimee Grunberger (1951-1995) The Administration of Veterans Jimmy Santiago Baca (1952- ) This Dark Side Mark Jarman (1952- ) Questions for Ecclesiastes from ""Transfiguration"" Franz Wright (1953- ) The Voice Rorschach Test Certain Tall Buildings Thanks Prayer at the Cove David Baker (1954- ) Hyper Melancholy Man Michael Lauchlan (1954- ) What You Hadn't Joe Bolton (1961-1990) Laguna Beach Breakdown A Couple of Suicide Cases Kelly Ann Malone (1963- ) Devices on Standby Brian Turner (1967- ) Eulogy Kevin Young (1970- ) Coke (The Real Thing) from In the Realms of the Unreal. ""Insane"" Writings (John G.H. Oakes, editor) (published 1991) Nicol By My Own Hand Richard Beard The Queen's Foreboding Jeff Holt (1971- ) Imbalance The Patient Ricky Cantor (1985- ) E 9th Street Coda: Anne Stevenson (1933- ) Letter to Sylvia Plath Biographical Notes Credits Index of Poets Index of Titles Index of First Lines"

Reviews

<br> A Mind Apart is a wonderful book: human, beautiful, and deeply moving. Dr. Bauer, a leading authority on depressive illnesses, has made a real contribution to our understanding of melancholia and madness. --Kay Redfield Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind<p><br> Almost as long as poetry has been written, it has been associated with madness. As both physician and poet, Mark Bauer is uniquely positioned to explore this field of reality and myth. His superb introductory essay argues that some kinds of unhinging are a benefit to poets, others a disaster. And his selection of poems from the Middle Ages to the present day is one of the most fascinating anthologies I have ever read. --David Mason, University of Colorado<p><br>

An excellent choice for study and discussion by residents...A substantial contribution to our field in a book that can expand the reader's sense and knowledge of not only the people we treat, but also the people we walk among every day. Psychiatrist.com A Mind Apart is a wonderful book: human, beautiful, and deeply moving. Dr. Bauer, a leading authority on depressive illnesses, has made a real contribution to our understanding of melancholia and madness. Kay Redfield Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind Almost as long as poetry has been written, it has been associated with madness. As both physician and poet, Mark Bauer is uniquely positioned to explore this field of reality and myth. His superb introductory essay argues that some kinds of unhinging are a benefit to poets, others a disaster. And his selection of poems from the Middle Ages to the present day is one of the most fascinating anthologies I have ever read. David Mason, University of Colorado

Bauer's expert analysis is fascinating and liberatingBauer has done his homework and the range of lyric poetry included here makes A Mind Apart indispensable for all poetry collections. -Providence Journal<br> A Mind Apart is a wonderful book: human, beautiful, and deeply moving. Dr. Bauer, a leading authority on depressive illnesses, has made a real contribution to our understanding of melancholia and madness. --Kay Redfield Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind<br> Almost as long as poetry has been written, it has been associated with madness. As both physician and poet, Mark Bauer is uniquely positioned to explore this field of reality and myth. His superb introductory essay argues that some kinds of unhinging are a benefit to poets, others a disaster. And his selection of poems from the Middle Ages to the present day is one of the most fascinating anthologies I have ever read. --David Mason, University of Colorado<br>

"""An excellent choice for study and discussion by residents...A substantial contribution to our field in a book that can expand the reader's sense and knowledge of not only the people we treat, but also the people we walk among every day."" --Psychiatrist.com ""A Mind Apart is a wonderful book: human, beautiful, and deeply moving. Dr. Bauer, a leading authority on depressive illnesses, has made a real contribution to our understanding of melancholia and madness."" --Kay Redfield Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind ""Almost as long as poetry has been written, it has been associated with madness. As both physician and poet, Mark Bauer is uniquely positioned to explore this field of reality and myth. His superb introductory essay argues that some kinds of unhinging are a benefit to poets, others a disaster. And his selection of poems from the Middle Ages to the present day is one of the most fascinating anthologies I have ever read.""--David Mason, University of Colorado"

<br> A Mind Apart is a wonderful book: human, beautiful, and deeply moving. Dr. Bauer, a leading authority on depressive illnesses, has made a real contribution to our understanding of melancholia and madness. --Kay Redfield Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind<br> Almost as long as poetry has been written, it has been associated with madness. As both physician and poet, Mark Bauer is uniquely positioned to explore this field of reality and myth. His superb introductory essay argues that some kinds of unhinging are a benefit to poets, others a disaster. And his selection of poems from the Middle Ages to the present day is one of the most fascinating anthologies I have ever read. --David Mason, University of Colorado<br>

Author Information

Mark S. Bauer is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency Training Program. He has published well over 100 scientific articles and book chapters, and four other books. His poems have appeared in a variety of literary journals in the US, UK, and Australia, and he is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Imperial Days and The Gnarled Man Rises.

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