num_pages: 490
description: “And Never Know the Joy” : Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry promises the reader much to enjoy and to reflect 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 “to seize the day”. 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.
language: English
title: And Never Know the Joy: Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry
titlecomplete: And Never Know the Joy: Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry (DQR Studies in Literature)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Brill Academic Pub