"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.

“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 instrumen...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / C.C. Barfoot
• RIDDLING EROTIC IDENTITY IN EARLY ENGLISH LYRICS / JANINE ROGERS
• BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE: EMBODYING RIOTOUS PERFORMANCE IN THE HARLEY LYRICS / KEVIN TEO KIA CHOONG
• THE PRONOUNS OF LOVE AND SEX: THOU AND YE AMONG LOVERS IN THE CANTERBURY TALES / LUISELLA CAON
• REASON VERSUS NATURE IN DUNBAR’S “TRETIS OF THE TWA MARIIT WEMEN AND THE WEDO” / BART VELDHOEN
• PRICK-SONG DITTIES: MUSICAL METAPHOR IN THE BAWDY VERSE OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD / GLYN PURSGLOVE
• “CEASE THY WANTON LUST”: THOMAS RANDOLPH’S ELEGY, THE CULT OF VENETIA, AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF CLASSICAL SEX / MARK LLEWELLYN
• THE NYMPH’S REPLY NINE MONTHS LATER / REBECCA C. POTTER
• LOWERING THE LIBERTINE: FEMINISM IN ROCHESTER’S “THE IMPERFECT ENJOYMENT” / TRACY WENDT LEMASTER
• “UPON A LITTLE LADY”: GENDER AND DESIRE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LYRICS / KARI BOYD MCBRIDE
• “FREEBORN JOY”: SEXUAL EXPRESSION AND POWER IN WILLIAM BLAKE’S VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION / LISA MARIE LIPIPIPATVONG
• OF MELANCHOLY AND MIMESIS: SOCIAL BOND(AGE)S IN VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION / NOWELL MARSHALL
• “HAPPY COPULATION”: REVOLUTIONARY SEXUALITY IN BLAKE AND SHELLEY / MONIKA LEE
• “BURSTING JOY’S GRAPE” IN KEATS’ ODES / DANIEL BRASS
• “IN THIS STRANG LABOURINTH HOW SHALL I TURNE?”: EROTIC SYMMETRY IN FOUR FEMALE SONNET SEQUENCES / C.C. BARFOOT
• CHRISTINA ROSSETTI’S “GOBLIN MARKET”: THE EROTICISM OF FEMALE MYSTICS / BRITTA ZANGEN
• “TO TAKE WERE TO PURLOIN”: SEXUALITY IN THE NARRATIVE POEMS OF CHRISTINA ROSSETTI / FAHRÏ ÖZ
• RENAISSANCE EROTIC IN THE POETRY OF JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS / J.D. BALLAM
• THE BRILLIANCE OF GAS-LIT EYES: ARTHUR SYMONS’ EROTIC AUTO-VOYEURISM OBSERVED / R. VAN BRONSWIJK
• THE EROTIC IN D.H. LAWRENCE’S EARLY POETRY / ANDREW HARRISON
• TRIANGULATION OF DESIRE IN H.D.’S HYMEN / NEPHIE J. CHRISTODOULIDES
• “SMILE, O VOLUPTUOUS COOL-BREATH’D EARTH”: EROTIC IMAGERY AND CONTEXT IN CONTEMPORARY RITUAL AUTHORSHIP / PEG ALOI
• TWO TONGUES IN ONE MOUTH: EROTIC ELEMENTS IN NUALA NÍ DHOMHNAILL’S IRISH POETRY AND ITS ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS / WIM TIGGES
• SEX IN THE “SICK, SICK, BODY POLITIC”: TONY HARRISON’S FRUIT / SANDIE BYRNE
• (UN)DRESSING BLACK NATIONALISM: NIKKI GIOVANNI’S (COUNTER)REVOLUTIONARY ETHICS / CHERYL ALEXANDER MALCOLM
• BIBLIO-EROTIC AND JEWISH EROTIC CONFIGURATIONS IN GEORGIA SCOTT’S THE PENNY BRIDE / WOLFGANG GÖRTSCHACHER
• NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / C.C. Barfoot
• INDEX I: SELECTED MOTIFS, TOPICS, THEMES / C.C. Barfoot
• INDEX II: AUTHORS, TEXTS AND PUBLICATIONS, SELECTED PROPER NAMES / C.C. Barfoot.