'"And Never Know the Joy": Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry' promises the reader much to enjoy and to reflect on: 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.     Contents:   Preface  Janine ROGERS: Riddling Erotic Identity in Early English Lyrics  Kevin Teo Kia CHOONG: Bodies of Knowledge: Embodying Riotous Performance in the Harley Lyrics  Luisella CAON: The Pronouns of Love and Sex: 'Thou' and 'Ye' Among Lovers in 'The Canterbury Tales'   Bart VELDHOEN: Reason versus Nature in Dunbar s  Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo   Glyn PURSGLOVE: Prick-Song Ditties: Musical Metaphor in the Bawdy Verse of the Early Modern Period  Mark LLEWELLYN:  Cease Thy Wanton Lust : Thomas Randolph s Elegy, the Cult of Venetia, and the Possibilities of Classical Sex  Rebecca C. POTTER: The Nymph s Reply Nine Months Later   Tracy WENDT LEMASTER: Lowering the Libertine: Feminism in Rochester s  The Imperfect Enjoyment   Kari Boyd Mcbride:  Upon a Little Lady : Gender and Desire in Early Modern English Lyrics  Lisa Marie LIPIPIPATVONG:  Freeborn Joy : Sexual Exp

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