$29.49
Author: Rosenthal Norman E.
Number Of Pages: 380
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“I used to believe that poetry did not “speak” to me, but I now see how wrong I was. I lived for 44 years with a husband, a lyricist, whose beautifully crafted, heartfelt lyrics touched my every fiber and continue to uplift and inspire me a decade after his death. The special beauty of Dr. Rosenthal’s book for me is his discussion of what each poem is saying, what the poet was likely feeling and often how the poems helped him personally, as when he left his birth family in South Africa for a rewarding career in the United States.” – Jane Brody, Author & New York Times Columnist
Poetry to Heal, Inspire and Enjoy
Poetry Rx presents 50 great poems as seen through the eyes of a renowned psychiatrist and New York Times bestseller. In this book, you will find insights into love, sorrow, ecstasy and everything in between: Love in the moment or for a lifetime; love that is fulfilling or addictive; when to break up and how to survive when someone breaks up with you.
Separate sections deal with responses to the natural world, and the varieties of human experience (such as hope, reconciliation, leaving home, faith, self-actualization, trauma, anger, and the thrill of discovery). Other sections involve finding your way in the world and the search for meaning, as well as the final stages of life.
In describing this multitude of human experiences, using vignettes from his work and life, Rosenthal serves as a comforting guide to these poetic works of genius. Through his writing, the workings of the mind, as depicted by these gifted writers speak to us as intimately as our closest friends.
Rosenthal also delves into the science of mind and brain. Who would have thought, for example, that listening to poetry can cause people to have goosebumps by activating the reward centers of the brain? Yet research shows that to be true.
And who were these fascinating poets? In a short biosketch that accompanies each poem, Rosenthal draws connections between the poets and their poems that help us understand the enigmatic minds that gave birth to these masterworks. Altogether, a fulfilling and intriguing must-read for anyone interested in poetry, the mind, self-help and genius.
CONTENTS
Introduction
PART ONE
Loving and Losing
Chapter One
Is There an Art to Losing?
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
Chapter Two
Can Love Transform You?
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Chapter Three
The Heart versus the Mind
Pity me not because the light of dayby Edna St. Vincent Millay
Chapter Four
Love in the Moment
Lullaby by W. H. Auden
Chapter Five
When Love Fades
Failing and Flyingby Jack Gilbert
Chapter Six
Getting Over a Breakup I: Acceptance
Why so pale and wan fond lover?by Sir John Suckling
Chapter Seven
Getting Over a Breakup II: Reclaiming Yourself
Love after Love by Derek Walcott,
Chapter Eight
Declaring Your Love
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? by William Shakespeare
Chapter Nine
Consoled by Love
Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes by William Shakespeare
Chapter Ten
In Praise of the Marriage of True Minds
Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare
Chapter Eleven
Loss of a Loved One
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (Funeral Blues) by W. H. Auden
Chapter Twelve
Will I Ever Feel Better?
Time Does Not Bring Relief by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Chapter Thirteen
Love Remembered
When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
Chapter Fourteen
Love after Death
Remember by Christina Rossetti,
PART TWO
That Inward Eye
Chapter Fifteen
Transcendence in Nature
Daffodils by William Wordsworth
Chapter Sixteen
The Memory of Daffodils
Miracle on St. David’s Day by Gillian Clarke
Chapter Seventeen
Transcendence in Body and Mind
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (excerpt) by William Wordsworth
Chapter Eighteen
The Power of Dark and Light
There’s a certain Slant of light by Emily Dickinson
Chapter Nineteen
In Praise
Release Date: 04-05-2021
Package Dimensions: 22x227x509
