Publisher's Synopsis
Ninety-four poems. Thirty six are sonnets. Most of the poems are brief, under two pages in length, and deal with love or ardor, death or aging, or various combinations of love/ardor and death/aging. Only three treat subjects one could call primarily medical or related to medicine: "Thoughts on the Shape of the Human Body," "Paralysis" and "Channel Passage." However, the threads of death, aging, the limitations of one's physicality and loneliness - no strangers to medical humanities courses - are ubiquitous. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
