"And never know the joy" : : sex and the erotic in English poetry / / edited by C.C. Barfoot.

• Superior document: DQR studies in literature ; 36
• VerfasserIn: Barfoot, C. C.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Barfoot, C. C.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: DQR Studies in Literature 36.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (503 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: And Never Know the Joy; "And Never Know the Joy"; Preliminary Material /; RIDDLING EROTIC IDENTITY IN EARLY ENGLISH LYRICS /; BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE: EMBODYING RIOTOUS PERFORMANCE IN THE HARLEY LYRICS /; THE PRONOUNS OF LOVE AND SEX: THOU AND YE AMONG LOVERS IN THE CANTERBURY TALES /; REASON VERSUS NATURE IN DUNBAR’S “TRETIS OF THE TWA MARIIT WEMEN AND THE WEDO” /; PRICK-SONG DITTIES: MUSICAL METAPHOR IN THE BAWDY VERSE OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD /; “CEASE THY WANTON LUST”: THOMAS RANDOLPH’S ELEGY, THE CULT OF VENETIA, AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF CLASSICAL SEX /; THE NYMPH’S REPLY NINE MONTHS LATER /; LOWERING THE LIBERTINE: FEMINISM IN ROCHESTER’S “THE IMPERFECT ENJOYMENT” /; “UPON A LITTLE LADY”: GENDER AND DESIRE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LYRICS /; “FREEBORN JOY”: SEXUAL EXPRESSION AND POWER IN WILLIAM BLAKE’S VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION /; OF MELANCHOLY AND MIMESIS: SOCIAL BOND(AGE)S IN VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION /; “HAPPY COPULATION”: REVOLUTIONARY SEXUALITY IN BLAKE AND SHELLEY /; “BURSTING JOY’S GRAPE” IN KEATS’ ODES /; “IN THIS STRANG LABOURINTH HOW SHALL I TURNE?”: EROTIC SYMMETRY IN FOUR FEMALE SONNET SEQUENCES /; CHRISTINA ROSSETTI’S “GOBLIN MARKET”: THE EROTICISM OF FEMALE MYSTICS /; “TO TAKE WERE TO PURLOIN”: SEXUALITY IN THE NARRATIVE POEMS OF CHRISTINA ROSSETTI /; RENAISSANCE EROTIC IN THE POETRY OF JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS /; THE BRILLIANCE OF GAS-LIT EYES: ARTHUR SYMONS’ EROTIC AUTO-VOYEURISM OBSERVED /; THE EROTIC IN D.H. LAWRENCE’S EARLY POETRY /; TRIANGULATION OF DESIRE IN H.D.’S HYMEN /; “SMILE, O VOLUPTUOUS COOL-BREATH’D EARTH”: EROTIC IMAGERY AND CONTEXT IN CONTEMPORARY RITUAL AUTHORSHIP /; TWO TONGUES IN ONE MOUTH: EROTIC ELEMENTS IN NUALA NÍ DHOMHNAILL’S IRISH POETRY AND ITS ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS /; SEX IN THE “SICK, SICK, BODY POLITIC”: TONY HARRISON’S FRUIT /; (UN)DRESSING BLACK NATIONALISM: NIKKI GIOVANNI’S (COUNTER)REVOLUTIONARY ETHICS /; BIBLIO-EROTIC AND JEWISH EROTIC CONFIGURATIONS IN GEORGIA SCOTT’S THE PENNY BRIDE /; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS /; INDEX I: SELECTED MOTIFS, TOPICS, THEMES /; INDEX II: AUTHORS, TEXTS AND PUBLICATIONS, SELECTED PROPER NAMES /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 1429481005; 9401203407
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by C.C. Barfoot.

“And Never Know the Joy” : Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry promises the reader much to enjoy and to reflect on: riddles and sex games; the grammar of relationships; the cunning psychology of bodily fantasies; sexuality as the ambiguous performance of words; the allure of music and its instruments; the erotics of death and remembrance, are just a few of the initial themes that emerge from the twenty-five articles to be found in this volume, with many an invitation “to seize the day”. Reproduction, pregnancy, and fear; discredited and degraded libertines; the ventriloquism of sexual objects; the ease with which men are reduced to impotence by the carnality of women; orgasm and melancholy; erotic mysticism and religious sexuality; the potency and dangers of fruit and flowers; the delights of the recumbent male body and of dancing girls; the fertile ritual use of poetic texts; striptease and revolution; silent women reclaimed as active vessels, are amongst the many engaging topics that emerge out of the ongoing and entertaining scholarly discussion of sex and eroticism in English poetry.