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050 00 $aPR508.H28$bW45 1993
082 00 $a809.1/001$220
100 1 $aWeissman, Judith.
245 10 $aOf two minds :$bpoets who hear voices /$cby
Judith Weissman.
260 $aHanover :$bUniversity Press of New England
;$aMiddletown, Conn. :$bWesleyan University Press,$cc1993.
263 $a9305
300 $axxi, 335 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p.
[301]-325) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Evolution and Inspiration -- 1.
Homer: Old Fathers and Absent Kings -- The Iliad: "Remember
your father" -- The Odyssey: "Nobody really knows his own
father" -- 2. Virgil: The Demons of Empire and the Death of
Queens -- The Georgics: "Here is my poem about fields and
flocks and trees" -- The Aeneid: "Burn these damned ships
with me" -- 3. William Shakespeare: The Father's Ghost, the
Madman's Rage, the Witches' Spell -- Hamlet: "Adieu, adieu,
adieu! Remember me" -- King Lear: "Thou rascal beadle, hold
thy bloody hand!" -- Macbeth: "All hail, Macbeth, that shalt
be king hereafter" -- 4. John Milton: God's Silence, God's
Justice, Our Freedom, Our Fall -- Comus and the Early Poems:
"Meer moral babble" -- Paradise Lost: "O for that warning
voice" -- 5. Christopher Smart: Peace and the Poor, Prophecy
in the Madhouse -- 6. William Blake: Harsh Instruments of
Sound and Witches with Knives -- Early poems: "I wrote my
happy songs" -- "The Visions of the Daughters of Albion":
"Oothoon shall view his dear delight, nor e'er with jealous
cloud / Come in the heaven of generous love, nor selfish
blightings bring" -- "The Four Zoas": "And all the arts of
life they changed into the arts of death" -- "Milton": "A
Virgin of twelve years" -- "Jerusalem": "I have slain him in
my sleep with the knife of the Druid" -- 7. William
Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Prophets of Nature,
Poets of Good and Evil -- The Early Poems of Wordsworth and
Coleridge: "Nature's holy plan" -- Wordworth's Spirits of
the Mind: "Forgive" -- Wordsworth's Prelude: "Sleep no
more!" -- Coleridge's Early Demons: "Beware! beware!" --
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner": "He prayeth best who
loveth best" -- Coleridge's Later Demons: "A scream / Of
agony by torture lengthened out" -- 8. Alfred Tennyson and
Matthew Arnold: The Truthful King and the Lying State --
Tennyson's Early Poems: "Were it not better not to be?" --
"In Memoriam": "The power in darkness whom we guess" --
"Maud" and "Lucretius": "And Echo there, whatever is ask'd
her, answers 'Death'" -- Idylls of the King: "Obedience is
the courtesy due to kings!" -- Matthew Arnold: "The Gods
laugh in their sleeve / To watch man doubt and fear" -- 9.
Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina
Rossetti, Emily Dickinson: Unwanted Sounds, the Punishment
of Pagan Poets -- Emily Bronte, "Speak, God of Visions" --
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Fifty bells / Of naked iron" --
Christina Rossetti: "Eat me, drink me, love me" -- Emily
Dickinson: "As all the Heavens were a Bell, / And Being, but
an Ear" -- 10. William Butler Yeats: Old Fathers and Great
Queens -- Early Poems: "Munster grass and Connemara skies"
-- Responsibilities: "Pardon, old fathers" -- The Wild Swans
at Coole: "With that cry I have raised my cry" -- Michael
Robartes and the Dancer: "Once more the storm is howling" --
The Tower: "A sudden blast of dusty wind" -- The Winding
Stair and Other Poems: "Sound of a stick upon the floor" --
Last Poems: "Out of a cavern comes a voice" -- Conclusion:
The Past and the Future.
650 0 $aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aHallucinations and illusions in literature.
650 0 $aClassical poetry$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
650 0 $aSubconsciousness in literature.
650 0 $aSupernatural in literature.
650 0 $aProphecies in literature.
650 0 $aVisions in literature.
650 0 $aInspiration.
