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"And Never Know the Joy"
Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry
Series: - DQR Studies in Literature Online, Volume: 36
- DQR Studies in Literature, Volume: 36
Volume Editor:
âAnd Never Know the Joyâ : 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 âto seize the dayâ. 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.
Preface
Janine ROGERS: Riddling Erotic Identity in Early English Lyrics
Kevin Teo Kia CHOONG: Bodies of Knowledge: Embodying Riotous Performance in the Harley Lyrics
Luisella CAON: The Pronouns of Love and Sex: Thou and Ye Among Lovers in The Canterbury Tales
Bart VELDHOEN: Reason versus Nature in Dunbarâs âTretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedoâ
Glyn PURSGLOVE: Prick-Song Ditties: Musical Metaphor in the Bawdy Verse of the Early Modern Period
Mark LLEWELLYN: âCease Thy Wanton Lustâ: Thomas Randolphâs Elegy, the Cult of Venetia, and the Possibilities of Classical Sex
Rebecca C. POTTER: The Nymphâs Reply Nine Months Later
Tracy WENDT LEMASTER: Lowering the Libertine: Feminism in Rochesterâs âThe Imperfect Enjoymentâ
Kari Boyd Mcbride: âUpon a Little Ladyâ: Gender and Desire in Early Modern English Lyrics
Lisa Marie LIPIPIPATVONG: âFreeborn Joyâ: Sexual Expression and Power in William Blakeâs Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Nowell MARSHALL: Of Melancholy and Mimesis: Social Bond(age)s in Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Monika LEE: âHappy Copulationâ: Revolutionary Sexuality in Blake and Shelley
Daniel BRASS: âBursting Joyâs Grapeâ in Keatsâ Odes
C.C. BARFOOT: âIn This Strang Labourinth How Shall I Turne?â: Erotic Symmetry in Four Female Sonnet Sequences
Britta ZANGEN: Christina Rossettiâs âGoblin Marketâ: The Eroticism of Female Mystics
Fahrï ÃZ: âTo Take Were to Purloinâ: Sexuality in the Narrative Poems of Christina Rossetti
J.D. BALLAM: Renaissance Erotic in the Poetry of John Addington Symonds
R. van BRONSWIJK: The Brilliance of Gas-Lit Eyes: Arthur Symonsâ Erotic Auto-Voyeurism Observed
Andrew HARRISON: The Erotic in D.H. Lawrenceâs Early Poetry
Nephie J. CHRISTODOULIDES: Triangulation of Desire in H.D.âs Hymen
Peg ALOI: âSmile, O Voluptuous Cool-Breathâd Earthâ: Erotic Imagery and Context in Contemporary Ritual Authorship
Wim TIGGES: Two Tongues in One Mouth: Erotic Elements in Nuala NÃ Dhomhnaillâs Irish Poetry and Its English Translations
Sandie BYRNE: Sex in the âSick, Sick Body Politicâ: Tony Harrisonâs Fruit
Cheryl Alexander MALCOLM: (Un)Dressing Black Nationalism: Nikki Giovanniâs (Counter)Revolutionary Ethics
Wolfgang GÃRTSCHACHER: Biblio-Erotic and Jewish Erotic Configurations in Georgia Scottâs The Penny Bride
Notes on Contributors
Index I: Selected Motifs, Topics, Themes
Index II: Authors, Texts and Publications,
Selected Proper Names
Janine ROGERS: Riddling Erotic Identity in Early English Lyrics
Kevin Teo Kia CHOONG: Bodies of Knowledge: Embodying Riotous Performance in the Harley Lyrics
Luisella CAON: The Pronouns of Love and Sex: Thou and Ye Among Lovers in The Canterbury Tales
Bart VELDHOEN: Reason versus Nature in Dunbarâs âTretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedoâ
Glyn PURSGLOVE: Prick-Song Ditties: Musical Metaphor in the Bawdy Verse of the Early Modern Period
Mark LLEWELLYN: âCease Thy Wanton Lustâ: Thomas Randolphâs Elegy, the Cult of Venetia, and the Possibilities of Classical Sex
Rebecca C. POTTER: The Nymphâs Reply Nine Months Later
Tracy WENDT LEMASTER: Lowering the Libertine: Feminism in Rochesterâs âThe Imperfect Enjoymentâ
Kari Boyd Mcbride: âUpon a Little Ladyâ: Gender and Desire in Early Modern English Lyrics
Lisa Marie LIPIPIPATVONG: âFreeborn Joyâ: Sexual Expression and Power in William Blakeâs Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Nowell MARSHALL: Of Melancholy and Mimesis: Social Bond(age)s in Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Monika LEE: âHappy Copulationâ: Revolutionary Sexuality in Blake and Shelley
Daniel BRASS: âBursting Joyâs Grapeâ in Keatsâ Odes
C.C. BARFOOT: âIn This Strang Labourinth How Shall I Turne?â: Erotic Symmetry in Four Female Sonnet Sequences
Britta ZANGEN: Christina Rossettiâs âGoblin Marketâ: The Eroticism of Female Mystics
Fahrï ÃZ: âTo Take Were to Purloinâ: Sexuality in the Narrative Poems of Christina Rossetti
J.D. BALLAM: Renaissance Erotic in the Poetry of John Addington Symonds
R. van BRONSWIJK: The Brilliance of Gas-Lit Eyes: Arthur Symonsâ Erotic Auto-Voyeurism Observed
Andrew HARRISON: The Erotic in D.H. Lawrenceâs Early Poetry
Nephie J. CHRISTODOULIDES: Triangulation of Desire in H.D.âs Hymen
Peg ALOI: âSmile, O Voluptuous Cool-Breathâd Earthâ: Erotic Imagery and Context in Contemporary Ritual Authorship
Wim TIGGES: Two Tongues in One Mouth: Erotic Elements in Nuala NÃ Dhomhnaillâs Irish Poetry and Its English Translations
Sandie BYRNE: Sex in the âSick, Sick Body Politicâ: Tony Harrisonâs Fruit
Cheryl Alexander MALCOLM: (Un)Dressing Black Nationalism: Nikki Giovanniâs (Counter)Revolutionary Ethics
Wolfgang GÃRTSCHACHER: Biblio-Erotic and Jewish Erotic Configurations in Georgia Scottâs The Penny Bride
Notes on Contributors
Index I: Selected Motifs, Topics, Themes
Index II: Authors, Texts and Publications,
Selected Proper Names