Madness and the Romantic Poet examines the longstanding and enduringly popular idea that poetry is connected to madness and mental illness. The idea goes back to classical antiquity, but it was given new life at the turn of the nineteenth century. The book offers a new and much more complete history of its development than has previously been attempted, alongside important associated ideas about individual genius, creativity, the emotions, rationality, and the mind in extreme states or disorder - ideas that have been pervasive in modern popular culture. More specifically, the book tells the story of the initial growth and wider dissemination of the idea of the 'Romantic mad poet' in the nineteenth century, how (and why) this idea became so popular, and how it interacted with the very different fortunes in reception and reputation of Romantic poets, their poetry, and attacks on or defences of Romanticism as a cultural trend generally - again leaving a popular legacy that endured into the twentieth century. Material covered includes nineteenth-century journalism, early literary criticism, biography, medical and psychiatric literature, and poetry. A wide range of scientific (and pseudoscientific) thinkers are discussed alongside major Romantic authors, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Hazlitt, Lamb, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Keats, Byron, and John Clare. Using this array of sources and figures, the book asks: was the Romantic mad genius just a sentimental stereotype or a romantic myth? Or does its long popularity tell us something serious about Romanticism and the role it has played, or has been given, in modern culture?

Madness and the Romantic Poet: A Critical History

Literature & Fiction

Whitehead, James

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

A collection of poems by a very talented poet.

Local Men and Domains

Poetry

University of Illinois Press

Joiner

A professional football player traveling in the South experiences a spiritual breakdown resulting from the turmoils of his life

Ballantine Books

Network Leadership: Navigating and Shaping Our Interconnected World

Network Leadership

Peckham, Mike

Reference

Routledge

A professional football player traveling in the South experiences a spiritual breakdown resulting from the turmoils of his life

KNOPF

This book is a guide to Christian maturity. It helps readers discover their true selves and their real vocation in the world. Such self-discovery is a life-long process, described here as an attempt to learn and follow God's place for us in the world and God's plan for our lives. Included in the process are the topics of stewardship, loving oneself, and the use of personal power in one's life. The authors are well known in their field. Evelyn Eaton Whitehead is a developmental psychologist who writes and lectures on adult maturity, leadership dynamics, and the social analysis of parish and community life. James D. Whitehead is a pastoral theologian and historian of religion. His area of concern is contemporary spirituality, leadership in ministry, and the use of theological methods in ministry. Christian Adulthood is taken from an earlier work of theirs, Seasons of Strength. 128-page paperback • 5-1/2 x 8-1/4

Christian Adulthood: A Journey of Self-Discovery

Religion & Spirituality

Whitehead, Evelyn Eaton

Christian Books & Bibles

Liguori Publications

These popular seminar leaders update and expand upon their groundbreaking and award-winning A Sense of Sexuality with new chapters on timely topics such as the relation between men and women and the experiences of gay and lesbian Christians.

The Wisdom of the Body: Making Sense of Our Sexuality (Crossroad Faith & Formation Book.)

PublishDrive

Through a series of dramatic monologues (spoken by Mary, the Angel Gabriel, Paul of Tarsus, and the “Sidonian archer,” Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera), the fourteen poems gathered here give life to the Jewish-apocryphal legend of “Jesus, son of Pantera”―the story that Jesus was sired by a Roman soldier. Having learned of a tomb (unearthed in Germany) bearing the soldier’s name, Whitehead spent the last years of his life researching and writing about this fascinating, controversial tradition. In his introduction to the collection, renowned Biblical scholar James Tabor recounts the Scriptural, apocryphal, and archaeological evidence upon which the story is based.

The Panther: Posthumous Poems

Moon City Press

On the Causes and Treatment of Abortion and Sterility: Being the

History

BiblioLife

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