"And by no means recognize the Joy": intercourse and the Erotic in English Poetry provides the reader a lot to take pleasure in and to mirror on: riddles and intercourse video games; the grammar of relationships; the crafty psychology of physically fantasies; sexuality because the ambiguous functionality of phrases; the attract of tune and its tools; the erotics of demise and remembrance, are only some of the preliminary topics that emerge from the twenty-five articles to be present in this quantity, with many a call for participation "to grab the day". copy, being pregnant, and worry; discredited and degraded libertines; the ventriloquism of sexual gadgets; the benefit with which males are diminished to impotence through the carnality of ladies; orgasm and depression; erotic mysticism and spiritual sexuality; the efficiency and risks of fruit and plants; the delights of the recumbent male physique and of dancing women; the fertile ritual use of poetic texts; striptease and revolution; silent ladies reclaimed as energetic vessels, are among the numerous enticing subject matters that emerge out of the continued and enjoyable scholarly dialogue of intercourse and eroticism in English poetry.
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