Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction
by
Mark S Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2008
"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...