On Human Flourishing

A Poetry Anthology
Herausgeber: Moores, D. J.; Potkay, Adam; Pawelski, James O.

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Produktbeschreibung

Great literature is more often praised for compelling depictions of conflict and tragedy than for moving portrayals of harmony and well-being. This collection of verse brings together poems of felicity, capturing what it means to be well in the fullest sense.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780786495801
• ISBN-10: 0786495804
• Artikelnr.: 42802367

Autorenporträt

D.J. Moores is an associate professor of literature at National University in San Diego, California. James O. Pawelski, a University of Pennsylvania senior scholar, is the founder of its Master of Applied Positive Psychology program. Adam Potkay is the William R. Kenan Professor of Humanities at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Emma Mason is a professor of English and comparative literary studies at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. Susan J. Wolfson is a professor of English at Princeton and former president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. James Engell is the Gurney Professor of English and a professor of comparative literature at Harvard and former president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments About the Editors xiii Introduction by D.J. Moores Cycle 1.
Wisdom William Blake-Eternity
29
William Wordsworth-Expostulation and Reply
29;
The Tables Turned
30
Alexander S. Pushkin-God, Don't Let Me Lose My Mind
31
Walt Whitman-When I Read the Book
32;
That Shadow My Likeness
32;
The Base of All Metaphysics
32;
Me Imperturbe
33
Emily Dickinson-Water, is taught by thirst
33
A.E. Housman-XXXVIII
33;
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
34
Stephen Crane-The Impact of a Dollar upon the Heart
34;
A Man Saw a Ball of Gold in the Sky
35;
Once There Came a Man
35
E.E. Cummings-XXIX
36
Chinmoy Kumar Ghose-The Answer
36;
Not word, but work
37
Joyce Snyder-Change
37
Adele Kenny-This Living
38
Bhikshuni Weisbrot-Safety Harbor
38 Cycle 2.
Pride, Self-Love and Resilience Thomas Traherne-The Rapture
40
Walt Whitman-One's-Self I Sing
41;
Laws for Creations
41;
O Me! O Life!
41
Sara Teasdale-The Answer
42
Langston Hughes-Mother to Son
42;
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
43;
Negro 43
Charles Bukowski-Mind and Heart
44
Maya Angelou-Woman Me
45
Chinmoy Kumar Ghose-Aspiration
46;
Obstructions
46
Joyce Snyder-I Came Here to Fly
46
Adele Kenny-Like I Said
47;
Survivor
47;
Somehow the Angel
47 Cycle 3.
Ecstasy, Elevation and Rapture Jalâl al-Din Rumi-Top of the morning, you're already smashed
50;
With each new breath the sound of love
50
Juan de la Cruz-In pursuit of an amorous encounter
52
Henry Vaughan-The Morning Watch
53
Baba Bulleh Shah-He who is stricken by love
53
Percy Bysshe Shelley-To Constantiä54
Ralph Waldo Emerson-Bacchus
55
Walt Whitman-One Hour to Madness and Joy
57
Anne Brontë-In a Wood on a Windy Day
58
Dante Gabriel Rossetti-Love's Testament
58
Emily Dickinson-Exultation is the Going
59;
Wild Nights-Wild Nights!
59
Gerard Manley Hopkins-The Windhover
59
George Marion McClellan-A September Night
60
Andrei Biely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev)-On the Mountains
61
William Carlos Williams-Dawn
62
Siegfried Sassoon-Everyone Sang
62
Edna St. Vincent Millay-God's World
63
Sharon Olds-Full Summer
63
Bhikshuni Weisbrot-Daintree
64
J.C. Augustine Wetta-Running Down Straight Street
64
Rachel Jamison
Webster-Through Hooded Clouds Untranslatable, Once
66 Cycle 4.
Consciousness Expansion, Growth and Engagement with Unconscious Depths Fariduddin 'Attar-I Shall Be Drunk Tonight
67
Kabir-XVI
68
Giacomo Leopardi-The In
nite
68;
Here the Waves Murmur
69
Alexander S. Pushkin-To ...
69
Elizabeth Barrett Browning-VII
70;
X
70
Walt Whitman-That Music Always Round Me
71;
To You
71
Matthew Arnold-The Buried Life
73
Emily Dickinson-Dare you see a soul at the white heat?
76; The brain is wider than the sky
76
Rabindranath Tagore-20
76;
31
77
C.D. Balmont-With my aspiration I caught the disappearing shadows
77
V.Y. Bryusov-My spirit did not break in the darkness of contradictions
78
Edward Field-A Journey
79
Wendell Berry-I go among trees and sit still
79
Joyce Snyder-Balance 80
Joy Harjo-I Give You Back
81
Bhikshuni Weisbrot-I Just Want to Be Happy...
82;
The Play
82
Daniel Weeks-A Tenderness Has Come
82 Cycle 5.
Romantic Love and Lust Hebrew Bible-You Are Beautiful
84
Dante Alighieri-So kind and so honest she seems
85
Robert Herrick-Upon Julia's Breasts
85;
Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breasts
86;
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time 86
Thomas Caraw-Boldness in Love
86
Andrew Marvell-To His Coy Mistress
87
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-The Bridegroom
88;
Secret Understanding
89
Robert Burns-A Red, Red Rose
89
Thomas Moore-Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
90
Alexander S. Pushkin-Oh My Maiden-Rose, I Am in Shackles
90
Elizabeth Barrett Browning-XXII
90
Robert Browning-Meeting at Night
91
Walt Whitman-I Am He That Aches with Love
91;
We Two Boys Together Clinging
92
Dante Gabriel Rossetti-Heart's Compass
92
James Thomson-The Bridge
92
Oscar Wilde-In the Gold Room
93
V.Y. Bryusov-Pompeian Woman
94
D.H. Lawrence-Gloire de Dijon
94;
Mystery
95
E.E. Cummings-45: I Love You Much(Most Beautiful Darling)
96
Conrad Aiken-Music I Heard with You
96
Pablo Neruda-Full Woman, Flesh Apple, Hot Moon
97
Kevin Clark-"Le Secret"
97
Dorianne Laux-The Thief
98
Allison Joseph-Learning to Laugh
99
Rachel Jamison Webster-Nebulä101
Brian Thornton-Paradox of Peripheral Vision
101
Cycle 6.
Language, Inspiration and the Imagination Jane Colman Turell-To My Muse, December
29, 1725 103
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-Beloved, just look
104
William Wordsworth-Tintern Abbey
104;
I wandered lonely as a cloud
108
Percy Bysshe Shelley-To a Sky-Lark
109;
Ode to the West Wind
111
Elizabeth Barrett Browning-To George Sand
113
Alfred, Lord Tennyson-The Poet's Mind
114
Walt Whitman-Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone
115
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper-Learning to Read
115
Dante Gabriel Rossetti-A Sonnet
117
Authur Rimbaud-My Bohemiä117
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov-Alpine Horn
118
James Weldon Johnson-O Black and Unknown Bards
118
Paul Lawrence Dunbar-A Choice
120
Hilda Doolittle-Holy Satyr
120;
Moonrise
121
Pablo Neruda-The Word
121
Stephen Spender-I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great
123
Allen Ginsberg-Vision 1948
124
Daniel Weeks-He Lay down in Green Timothy
124 Cycle 7.
Relatedness to the Environment, Flora and Fauna Thomas Gray-Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Gold
shes
126
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-To the Rising Full Moon
127;
May Song
127;
At Midnight
129;
On the Lake
129
Philip Freneau-On the Religion of Nature
130
William Wordsworth-My Heart Leaps Up
130
Samuel Taylor Coleridge-To Nature
131;
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison Addressed to Charles Lamb, of the India House, London
131
George Gordon, Lord Byron-XIII
133;
LXXV
134;
LXXXVIII
134;
XCIII
134
Ralph Waldo Emerson-The Rhodorä134
Elizabeth Barrett Browning-To Flush, My Dog
135
John Greenleaf Whittier-The Worship of Nature
136
Alfred, Lord Tennyson-Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height
137
Henry David Thoreau-Nature
138
Walt Whitman-We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd
139;
A Song of the Rolling Earth
139
Gerard Manley Hopkins-Binsey Poplars
144
W.B. Yeats-The Lake Isle of Innisfree
145
Robert Frost-The Tuft of Flowers
145
E.E. Cummings-O sweet spontaneous
147; Spring Omnipotent Goddess Thou
147
Pablo Neruda-Horses
149
Dylan Thomas-The force that through the green fuse drives the
ower
150
Nikki Giovanni-Winter Poem
150
Adele Kenny-Of Other
151
Susanna Rich-Winter Trees
151;
Laurels on the Appalachian Trail
152;
Walking Holly down a Wooded Lane
152
Dorianne Laux-The Orgasms of Organisms
153
Bhikshuni Weisbrot-Spring Again
154 Cycle 8.
Hope, Optimism and Idealism Hebrew Bible-Psalm 23
155
John Donne-Death, Be Not Proud
156
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-Phenomenon
156
Samuel Taylor Coleridge-Pantisocracy
157
John Clare-Song: Love Lives beyond the Tomb
157
George Moses
Horton-Imploring to Be Resigned at Death
158
Alfred, Lord Tennyson-Nothing Will Die
159
Charlotte Brontë-Life
160
Walt Whitman-A Clear Midnight
160;
Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
160
Emily Dickinson-Hope is the thing with feathers
161
Thomas Hardy-The Darkling Thrush
162
Oscar Wilde-Vita Nuovä163
Stephen Crane-I walked in a desert
163
Paul Lawrence Dunbar-He Had His Dream
163
Daniel Webster Davis-I Can Trust
164
Claude McKay-Americä165
Chinmoy Kumar Ghose-Start a New Beginning
165;
There Was a Time
165
Emily Lewis Penn-Nachtmusik Sonnet
166 Cycle 9.
Childhood, Innocence, Wonder and Awe Andrew Marvell-The Garden
167
Thomas Traherne-Wonder
169;
To the Same Purpose
170
Ann Eliza Bleecker-On the Immensity of Creation
171
William Blake-Infant Joy
172;
The Echoing Green
172
William Wordsworth-Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
173;
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
173
Walt Whitman-Miracles
178;
Sparkles from the Wheel
179;
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
180
Gerard Manley Hopkins-Spring and Fall
180; Spring
181
Rabindranath Tagore-95
181
D.H.
Lawrence-Pianö181
Dylan Thomas-Fern Hill
182
Rachel Jamison Webster-Kauai
183 Cycle 10.
Sensory Delights, Vitality and Mindfulness Robert Herrick-Upon Jack and Jill. Epigram
185
Thomas Carew-Persuasions to Enjoy
185
Alexander S. Pushkin-Bacchic Song
186
Emily Brontë-A little while, a little while
186
Walt Whitman-I Sing the Body Electric
187
Rabindranath Tagore-57 194
W.B.
Yeats-The Fiddler of Dooney
195
C.D. Balmont-The Sunbeam
195;
The Law of Life
196
Edwin Arlington Robinson-Mr. Flood's Party
196
Robert Frost-Pan With Us
198
Trumbull Stickney-Live Blindly
199
James Joyce-X
199;
XX
199
Mina Loy-There is no life or death
200
William Carlos Williams-Danse Russe
201;
Love Song
201
Edna St. Vincent Millay-Mariposä202
E.E. Cummings-22
202;
when god lets my body be
202;
65: I Thank You God For Most This Amazing
203
Aldous Huxley-Scenes of the Mind
203
Pablo Neruda-Ode to Laziness
205
Stanley Kunitz-Touch Me
207
Charles Bukowski-The Shower
207
Kevin Clark-Sixties Noir
209
Susanna Rich-Finding Raspberries by the Road
209
Jane Hirshfield-The Dead Do Not Want Us Dead
210
Daniel Weeks-Long Branch
210
Susannah Spanton-Moments
211 Cycle 11.
Love, Gratitude, Compassion and Relatedness to Others Yunus Emre-The Fleeting Life
212
Anonymous Nahuatl-Poem to Ease Birth
213
Thomas Carew-A Song
213
Anne Bradstreet-To My Dear and Loving Husband
214;
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
214
William Blake-The Divine Image
215;
A Cradle Song
216
William Wordsworth-Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman
217
Samuel Taylor Coleridge-Frost at Midnight
219;
On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son
221;
To a Friend who Asked, How I Felt When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me
221
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-The Bridge
222
Walt Whitman-To You
224;
Mother and Babe
224;
To a Common Prostitute
224;
Beautiful Women
224;
To One Shortly to Die
224;
There Was a Child Went Forth
225
A.E. Housman-XXXII
226
W.B.
Yeats-A Prayer for My Daughter
227;
A Prayer for My Son
228
Stephen Crane-Behold, the Grave of a Wicked Man
229
Amy Lowell-A Decade
229
Rupert Brooke-The Soldier
229
Galway Kinnell-After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
230
Chinmoy Kumar Ghose-Eternal Happiness
230
Joyce Snyder-A Perfect Poem
231
Bhikshuni Weisbrot-Autumnal Revival
231
Rachel Jamison Webster-Late September
232;
Dance, Baby
233 Cycle 12.
Relatedness to the Sacred Hebrew
Bible-Psalm 150
234
Fariduddin 'Attar-How can sober reason understand
234
Sa'di of Shirazi-The Throne of the Heart
235
Jalâl al-Din Rumi-Once more we come like dust adance in air
236;
Heart
236
Kabir-IV
237;
XLVI
237;
LVI
238;
LXX
239
Juan de la Cruz-Without a Place and with a Place
239
George Herbert-Man
240
Thomas Traherne-Love
242
Joseph Addison-Ode
243
Ralph Waldo Emerson-Give All to Love
244
Emily Dickinson-Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church
245
Gerard Manley Hopkins-God's Grandeur
245
Edmund Gosse-The Tide of Love
246
Rabindranath Tagore-59
246;
72
247
Bhikshuni Weisbrot-The Nature of Light Cycle 13.
Justice, Righteous Anger and Self-Determination Richard
Lovelace-To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
248
Anonymous Negro Spiritual-Go Down, Moses
248
Anna Laetitia Barbauld-The Rights of Woman
249
George Gordon, Lord Byron-When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home 250
John Greenleaf Whittier-For Righteousness' Sake
250
Henry David Thoreau-Independence
251
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper-Bury Me in a Free Land
252
William Ernest Henley-Invictus
253
Ella Wheeler Wilcox-The Winds of Fate
254
Paul Lawrence Dunbar-Sympathy
254
John McCrae-In Flanders Fields
255
Fenton Johnson-Children of the Sun
255
Claude McKay-If We Must Die
256
Wilfred
Owen-Dulce et Decorum Est
256;
Anthem for a Doomed Youth
257
Harold Norse-Let Go and Feel Your Nakedness
258
Charles Bukowski-No Leaders, Please
258
Denise Levertov-Variation on a Theme by Rilke
259
Jack Micheline-Poem to the Freaks
259
Brian Thornton-Erbil Libre-Erbil, Iraq
260 Cycle 14.
Unity, Meaning, Serenity and Enchantment Jalâl al-Din Rumi-Bliss 262
Kabir-XIV 263;
XXVIII 263
Torquato Tasso-The Woods and the Rivers Fall Silent
264
Henry Vaughan-Peace 264
William Wordsworth-It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
265
Ugo Foscolo-To Evening
265
John Greenleaf Whittier-What the Birds Said
266
Emily Brontë-A Daydream
267
Walt Whitman-On the Beach at Night Alone
26;
A Glimpse
269
Dante Gabriel Rossetti-Nuptial Sleep
270;
Silent Noon 270
Emily Dickinson-Exhilaration Is the Breeze
271
Gerard Manley Hopkins-The Starlight Night
271
Paul Verlaine-Listen to the Song So Sweet
271
Rabindranath Tagore-78
272
W.B. Yeats-The Song of Wandering Aengus
273
Paul Lawrence Dunbar-Dawn
273
James Joyce-III
274
Sara Teasdale-Peace
274
Stephen Spender-VI
275
Bhikshuni Weisbrot-Meditation
275
Jane Hirshfield-Against Certainty
276
Susannah Spanton-Solitude
276
Rachel Jamison Webster-Cream of the Pour is the Cream of Skin Thickening
277 Notes and Bibliography Index of First Lines Index of Poets