xiv, 291 pages : illustrations, facsimile (on lining papers) ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Boswell's clap -- Swinburne's masochism : neuropathology and psychopathology -- Lady Chatterley's what? -- Drowsed with the fume of poppies : opium and John Keats -- Madness and poetry: a note on Collins, Cowper, and Smart -- Chekhov among the doctors : the doctor's dilemma -- William Carlos Williams, M.D. : physician as poet -- Earl of Rochester and ejaculatio praecox -- Thomas Shadwell : his exitus revis'd -- Did Socrates die of hemlock poisoning?