UWP Lecturers Ian D. Copestake "Mapping Water: Measured Responses to Madness and the Sea in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell."!

[Steven Axelrod]

Hello all,

The talk and question period will occur from 3:10-4:00pm. I will introduce
Ian Copestake at the outset. Please do come if you can.

Best wishes,

Steve Axelrod

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Susan Brown <susan.brown at ucr.edu> wrote:

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> "Mapping Water: Measured Responses to Madness and the Sea in the Poetry of
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> My paper is part of research I am undertaking towards a book entitled
> "Madness and the Sea in the American Imagination." The book, and my paper,
> looks at how positive notions of the sea entered Western imagination thanks
> to the existence of ancient medical discourses in the Hippocratic tradition
> which argued for the sea's therapeutic properties, helpful in particular in
> the treatment of forms of mental illness or "melancholia." I trace the
> impact of this positive, therapeutic perception of the sea on the work,
> thought and experience of a range of philosophers and poets in the
> nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the two figures I focus on in
> my talk, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.  ****
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-- 
Steven Gould Axelrod
President, The Robert Lowell Society
Author, *Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words*; *Robert Lowell:
Life and Art*
Co-editor, *The New Anthology of American Poetry, Vols. 1-3*
Distinguished Professor of English
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
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