1990, ISBN: 9780749000110

[PU: London: Allison & Busby], XIV, 289 p. Paperback. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Traditi… Mehr…

[PU: London: Allison & Busby], XIV, 289 p. Paperback. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Bleistiftanmerkung auf Schmutztitel, Seiten angegilbt, sonst guter Zustand / pencil annotation on half title, pages yellowed, otherwise good condition. - “I came softly into the room, and in a sweet delirium slipped into bed and was immediately clasped in her snowy arms and pressed to her milk-white bosom ...” Just another night in the life of James Boswell, English literature’s greatest camp-follower, but only six days later, “then came sorrow. Too, too plain was Signor Gonorrhea. Yet I could scarce believe it ” At least he was getting used to it: Boswell’s version of “safe copulation" - a sheep’s bladder in a brothel and too drunk to care - was to bring him 16 more doses in the remaining 28 years of his life. Swinburne also had a life of pain, only he rather liked it, and what the Earl of Rochester liked most, he was always too excited to enjoy Afflictions, problems and downright perversions: these form the subject of pathologist William B. Ober’s fascinating essays. He explores the madness of poets, the illness of doctors, the suspicious death of a Grub Street hack. What’s really going on in Lady Chatterley? What did Socrates drink? And what was the real source of Keats’s “drowsy numbness”? Dr Ober is uniquely qualified for these investigations, bringing a century’s medical advances to bear on the distresses and dark secrets of some of the world’s greatest and unluckiest writers. / CONTENTS List of Illustrations Preface 1 Boswell’s Clap 2 Swinburne’s Masochism: Neuropathology and Psychopathology 3 Lady Chatterley’s What? 4 Drowsed with the Fume of Poppies: Opium and John Keats 5 Madness and Poetry: A Note on Collins, Cowper, and Smart 6 Chekhov among the Doctors: The Doctor’s Dilemma 7 William Carlos Williams, M.D.: Physician as Poet 8 The Earl of Rochester and Ejaculatio Praecox 9 Thomas Shadwell: His Exitus Re, DE, [SC: 4.50], gebraucht; gut, gewerbliches Angebot, [GW: 270g], Banküberweisung, Offene Rechnung, PayPal, Internationaler Versand<

1990, ISBN: 0749000112

[EAN: 9780749000110], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 32.68], [PU: London: Allison & Busby], XIV, 289 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780749000110], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 32.68], [PU: London: Allison & Busby], XIV, 289 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Bleistiftanmerkung auf Schmutztitel, Seiten angegilbt, sonst guter Zustand / pencil annotation on half title, pages yellowed, otherwise good condition. - "I came softly into the room, and in a sweet delirium slipped into bed and was immediately clasped in her snowy arms and pressed to her milk-white bosom ." Just another night in the life of James Boswell, English literature’s greatest camp-follower, but only six days later, "then came sorrow. Too, too plain was Signor Gonorrhea. Yet I could scarce believe it " At least he was getting used to it: Boswell’s version of "safe copulation" - a sheep’s bladder in a brothel and too drunk to care - was to bring him 16 more doses in the remaining 28 years of his life. Swinburne also had a life of pain, only he rather liked it, and what the Earl of Rochester liked most, he was always too excited to enjoy Afflictions, problems and downright perversions: these form the subject of pathologist William B. Ober’s fascinating essays. He explores the madness of poets, the illness of doctors, the suspicious death of a Grub Street hack. What’s really going on in Lady Chatterley? What did Socrates drink? And what was the real source of Keats’s "drowsy numbness"? Dr Ober is uniquely qualified for these investigations, bringing a century’s medical advances to bear on the distresses and dark secrets of some of the world’s greatest and unluckiest writers. / CONTENTS List of Illustrations Preface 1 Boswell’s Clap 2 Swinburne’s Masochism: Neuropathology and Psychopathology 3 Lady Chatterley’s What? 4 Drowsed with the Fume of Poppies: Opium and John Keats 5 Madness and Poetry: A Note on Collins, Cowper, and Smart 6 Chekhov among the Doctors: The Doctor’s Dilemma 7 William Carlos Williams, M.D.: Physician as Poet 8 The Earl of Rochester and Ejaculatio Praecox 9 Thomas Shadwell: His Exitus Revis’d 10 Did Socrates Die of Hemlock Poisoning? Notes. ISBN 9780749000110 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 270, Books<

1990, ISBN: 0749000112

[EAN: 9780749000110], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.0], [PU: London: Allison & Busby], XIV, 289 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW u… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780749000110], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.0], [PU: London: Allison & Busby], XIV, 289 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Bleistiftanmerkung auf Schmutztitel, Seiten angegilbt, sonst guter Zustand / pencil annotation on half title, pages yellowed, otherwise good condition. - "I came softly into the room, and in a sweet delirium slipped into bed and was immediately clasped in her snowy arms and pressed to her milk-white bosom ." Just another night in the life of James Boswell, English literature’s greatest camp-follower, but only six days later, "then came sorrow. Too, too plain was Signor Gonorrhea. Yet I could scarce believe it " At least he was getting used to it: Boswell’s version of "safe copulation" - a sheep’s bladder in a brothel and too drunk to care - was to bring him 16 more doses in the remaining 28 years of his life. Swinburne also had a life of pain, only he rather liked it, and what the Earl of Rochester liked most, he was always too excited to enjoy Afflictions, problems and downright perversions: these form the subject of pathologist William B. Ober’s fascinating essays. He explores the madness of poets, the illness of doctors, the suspicious death of a Grub Street hack. What’s really going on in Lady Chatterley? What did Socrates drink? And what was the real source of Keats’s "drowsy numbness"? Dr Ober is uniquely qualified for these investigations, bringing a century’s medical advances to bear on the distresses and dark secrets of some of the world’s greatest and unluckiest writers. / CONTENTS List of Illustrations Preface 1 Boswell’s Clap 2 Swinburne’s Masochism: Neuropathology and Psychopathology 3 Lady Chatterley’s What? 4 Drowsed with the Fume of Poppies: Opium and John Keats 5 Madness and Poetry: A Note on Collins, Cowper, and Smart 6 Chekhov among the Doctors: The Doctor’s Dilemma 7 William Carlos Williams, M.D.: Physician as Poet 8 The Earl of Rochester and Ejaculatio Praecox 9 Thomas Shadwell: His Exitus Revis’d 10 Did Socrates Die of Hemlock Poisoning? Notes. ISBN 9780749000110 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 270, Books<

1990, ISBN: 0749000112

[EAN: 9780749000110], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: London: Allison & Busby], XIV, 289 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des Inte… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780749000110], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: London: Allison & Busby], XIV, 289 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Bleistiftanmerkung auf Schmutztitel, Seiten angegilbt, sonst guter Zustand / pencil annotation on half title, pages yellowed, otherwise good condition. - "I came softly into the room, and in a sweet delirium slipped into bed and was immediately clasped in her snowy arms and pressed to her milk-white bosom ." Just another night in the life of James Boswell, English literature’s greatest camp-follower, but only six days later, "then came sorrow. Too, too plain was Signor Gonorrhea. Yet I could scarce believe it " At least he was getting used to it: Boswell’s version of "safe copulation" - a sheep’s bladder in a brothel and too drunk to care - was to bring him 16 more doses in the remaining 28 years of his life. Swinburne also had a life of pain, only he rather liked it, and what the Earl of Rochester liked most, he was always too excited to enjoy Afflictions, problems and downright perversions: these form the subject of pathologist William B. Ober’s fascinating essays. He explores the madness of poets, the illness of doctors, the suspicious death of a Grub Street hack. What’s really going on in Lady Chatterley? What did Socrates drink? And what was the real source of Keats’s "drowsy numbness"? Dr Ober is uniquely qualified for these investigations, bringing a century’s medical advances to bear on the distresses and dark secrets of some of the world’s greatest and unluckiest writers. / CONTENTS List of Illustrations Preface 1 Boswell’s Clap 2 Swinburne’s Masochism: Neuropathology and Psychopathology 3 Lady Chatterley’s What? 4 Drowsed with the Fume of Poppies: Opium and John Keats 5 Madness and Poetry: A Note on Collins, Cowper, and Smart 6 Chekhov among the Doctors: The Doctor’s Dilemma 7 William Carlos Williams, M.D.: Physician as Poet 8 The Earl of Rochester and Ejaculatio Praecox 9 Thomas Shadwell: His Exitus Revis’d 10 Did Socrates Die of Hemlock Poisoning? Notes. ISBN 9780749000110 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 270, Books<