Poems referring to Medicine: International

 

Alphabetical Master

 

 

Abulafia, Todros in Cole, Peter (ed.) (2007) The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim Spain 950-1492  Princeton University Press p269 illness and love and weight loss

 

Adams, Douglas in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy  here the Vogon commander kills with his poetry (recent take on ancient theme)

 

Alhadib, Isaac in Carmi T (1981) The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse  Penguin Classics p428 top stanza: he wants to be a doctor so that he can get money and finger women.

 

Alahdab, Yitzhaq (same person as above) in Cole, Peter (ed.) (2007) The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim Spain 950-1492  

 

Alcman in Greek Lyric Poetry  the body, letting go, love (early theme)

 

Amichai, Yehuda The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai  

 

Anon in The Owl and the Nightingale, Cleanness, St Erkenwald Penguin Classics  in Cleanness lines 1089-1100 and et seq (A homily on cleanness). Introduction also

 

Arbiter, Petronius in Penguin Classics from Dinner with TrimalchioSatyricon senses in XXIX AL650 170-1 and farting in XXXIX AL 473 p174

 

Arbuthnot, William in The Cambridge Book of Lesser Poets p319 Know thyself, contains channels theory of body and soul

 

Lives of the Poets 

 

Attar The Conference of the Birds Penguin Classics

            

 

Augustine, St Confessions

 

Bai Juyi (see Po Chu I)

 

Bar Hebraeus  (Abul Faraj) a 13th century poet/Physician /scholar 1228-1286

 

 

 

du Bellay, Joachim in Slavitt D R (trans.)(2004) Joachim Du Bellay: The Regrets  Northwestern UP  Sonnets 97 and 98 concern possessed girls in convents, fake healers, hysteria  208-211

 

Berryman, J in Alvarez A (ed.)(1962) The New Poetry Penguin Homage to Miss Bradstreet (selections from) about psychiatry and childbirth

 

Boccaccio Decameron in Penguin Classics has introduction about the plague which is very good, also  Day One story 10 about a Alberto the great physician

 

Breedlove, C   (Poetry Editor JAMA)(ed.) Uncharted Lives US Anthology 

 

Brings-Plenty, Trevino L in Louis AC (ed.) (2008) Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets Michigan State Uni Press  focus on alcoholism, violence, loss   How to be an Indian Male in the Early 21st Century; To rid the egg (mother escapes forced HIS sterilization, evil doctors in system); Part Gravel, Part Water, All Indian (my body is diseased by civilisation); Lakota language lesson with Benjamin (grandfather after CVA);

 

Broome, William in The Cambridge Book of Lesser Poets 

 

Bunimovitch E (ed) and Kates J (trans) (2008) Contemporary Russian Poetry: An Anthology Dalkey Archive  p41 complex modern metaphor; p251; p71 see Sedakova

 

Bunyan, John 

 

Byron, Lord Don Juan Penguin Classics edition:

            II 13 and 21-3 seasick/lovesick, 64 longevity, 67 meat eating, 76-7 surgeon-cannibal, 213-5 medical metaphor and humour; X 39 et seq

 

 Princeton (Love as a disease, classical renaissance type conceits)  

 

Lusiads Penguin Classics  Canto V p136 the sailors get a flesh rotting disease

 

Campion, Thomas  in Schmidt, M (1998) Lives of the Poets Knopf/Weidenfeld UK  he was a doctor, little known

 

*Campo, Rafael book The Poetry Of Healing; also, What the Body Told

 

Carmina Burana in Parlett D (trans.)(1986) Carmina Burana  Penguin Classics CB66 The Steeds of Apollo (suggested title for my book); CB 77 The Dream of the Rose p83, stanza 10-11 and 18-22 (love in monastic era needed Cupid and Venus to excuse it/sidestep religious morality?)(love as disease to be cured by lover MS Benedictine

 

 

 

Chaesam, Pak in McCann D R and Shin, Jowin (trans.)(2006)   Princeton  News from home (medicine shop with herbs, dying people) 32; Untitled (the morning shaking like a fever) 37; The feeling of the gingko 51; Seeing the fresh green (the youthful killing of things) 49; Spring riverside (man and birth) 63; My poem (vanity, brevity of life) 73; I know the heart of the wild goose (man and tenderness for the newborn) 81; Autumn Sea (gingko, the voice of illness to which we listen intently) 89; Flowers on a dead tree (unsure if this might be a ca breast poem) 91; Songs of death 93; four 4 line poems all medical 105; Small song 127; After an illness 135

 

Chapman, George in Elizabethan and Jacobean Poets Viking Library  The Shadow of Night 130 (humours)

 

Chaucer  

 

Chipasula, Frank in Penguin African Poems 4th

 

 

 

Christopher, Nicholas  

 

Cicero in (trans) Cicero: Selected Works Penguin Classics

p76, letter of 7/11/50 BC, in which he takes a snipe at doctors and money. Nice, but not poetry. Might be useful illustration of an attitude of the time

 

Clare, John in The Cambridge Book of Lesser Poets

 

Cohen, Leonard (song) Teachers doctors as prophets mentioned somewhere (look on net)

 

*Colquhoun, Greg  3 books  The Art Of Walking Upright 1999  An Explanation Of Poetry By My Father 2000  Playing God 2002

 

Copernicus (says our old Encyclopedia Brittanica 1962 edition) also studied medicine, and practised it. He translated  some Epistles and Theophactylus

 

Cotton, Charles (ed. Ken Robinson) (1983) Selected Poems  Fyfield Books. Some poems mention alcohol and its relationship to health Ode p102-4; Contention stanza XVI p119; Poverty stanza I and II p111-4; Clepsydra p104-6; Paraphrased from Anacreon p106-4 (pro-alcohol)

 

*Coulehan, Jack fr: The Heavenly Ladder  The Last Cheap Comfort

 

Cowley, Abraham in Elizabethan and Jacobean Poets Viking Library Ode to Dr Harvey; his other poem in this collection is also medical 

 

Cowper, William in William Cowper: Selected Poems

 

  (sic) was never found/ a nobler weapon than a 

 

Daniel, Samuel in Elizabethan and Jacobean Poets Viking Library  Love is a sicknesse 89

 

Davies W H   The Inquest

 

Dead Sea Scrolls in Carmi T (1981) The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse  Penguin Classics p186  birth of the Messiah

 

de la Cruz, Sor Juana Ines in The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance  Sonnet 145 a masterpiece of life and death; sonnets 147 and 148 concern the body  and love

 

DePiera, Shelomo in Cole, Peter (ed.) (2007) The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim Spain 950-1492    

 

Dickinson, Emily Collected Poems Faber and Faber

            no 108: Surgeons must be very careful

            no389 The doctor drives away

no457 Sweet safe houses

no396 The surgeon vs God

no 443 to cover what we are from science and surgery

no 470 breath on the glass

no572; no 574 personal illness

no631?miscarriage

no632 the brain

861 is this about medical experiment?

908 suicide of a maid

919 the general urge to relieve suffering

957, 967 pain, afflictions, changes  in perception with the passage of time

974 ED stuff!

990

997 Crumbling!

1026 the dying need but little, dear

1036 note on immortality

1046 my nerve in marble lies

1044 A sickness of this world

1049 Pain has but one acquaintance

1100 dying and spirit

1106 we do not know the time we lose

1270 Is Heaven a Physician?

1633 what the surgeon calls alive

 

 

 

Donne, John  Holy Sonnets X  

 

Dowson, Ernest in Rodensky L (2006) Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu

 

Drayton, Michael in Elizabethan and Jacobean Poets Viking Library  of the Neighbouring Towne (portrayal of madness, Bedlam, in context of abandoning virtue  123-4

 

Du Fu (see Tu Fu)

 

Duhig, Ian (2007) in The Speed of Dark

 

Dunbar, William no15 As yung Awrora with cristall haile 44; no 23 physicians die too; no 28 trew luve rysis fro the splene; no 29 A paralous sieknes is vane prosperite; no 41 Excess of thocht dois me mischief (and medicine as money stanza 3); no 43 I Maister Andro Kennedy (burlesque on a physician of the court)

 

Enwright PJ in Alvarez A (ed.)(1962) The New Poetry Penguin On the death of a child p91

 

Erba    p29 Health Resort (mysterious); p31 has some medical imagery (like many radical, surrealist, 20th

 

Faiz Ahmad Faiz in Iftikhar A (2010) Modern Poetry of Pakistan Dalkey Archive  At the Sinai Valley 57

 

Fanthorpe, U.A  (in admin at a British Hospital)  Children Imagining a Hospital  The Doctors + others ++

 

Ford in Elizabethan and Jacobean Poets Viking Library from the Lovers Melancholy 373 Meleander says there is no mirth that has no tinge of madness

 

Foster, James (2001)   

 

 

 

Gabirol, Solomon Ibn in Carmi T (1981) The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse  

 

Goethe in Goethe: Selected Poems

 

Gray, David in The Cambridge Book of Lesser Poets

 

Gunn T in Alvarez A (ed.)(1962) The New Poetry Penguin  Allegory of the Wolf Boy 158; The wound 151

 

Habington, William in The Cambridge Book of Lesser Poets   astrologers and phisitians

 

Hakohen, Joseph in Carmi T (1981) The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse    a Dr-Poet

 

Halevi, Yehuda, in Cole, Peter (ed.) (2007) The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim Spain 950-1492  

 

Halevi, Judah in Carmi T (1981) The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse  Penguin Classics  

 

Hamburger, Michael (1995) Collected Poems 1941-1994  Anvil Press  

 

Hamilton, Ian in Alvarez A (ed.)(1962) The New Poetry Penguin  Last Illness 239

 

Hapenini, Yedaya in Cole, Peter (ed.) (2007) The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim Spain 950-1492  Princeton University Press p278   he might have been a physician. No poems on medicine in the selection, but he may have some?

 

Henley, William Ernest 1849-1903 in Rodensky L (2006) Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu

 

Herbert in Elizabethan and Jacobean Poets Viking Library from The Sacrifice 445 (mention of physician heal thyself)

 

Herrick, Robert in Renaissance Poetry Volume III

 

Hill, Geoffrey in Alvarez A (ed.)(1962) The New Poetry Penguin  In Memory of Jane Fraser 201-2 (died, froze?)

 

Hippocrates  Aphorisms esp Bk1 No 1 Life is short, art is long

 

Ho Xuan Huong in Balaban J (trans)(2000) Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong Copper Canyon  

 

Hochman, Sandra p15, p7, p14 overblown: she thinks she is a vegetable dreaming on the vine

 

Holbrook D in Alvarez A (ed.)(1962) The New Poetry Penguin Fingers in the door p114; Unholy marriage 115-6 (car smash); Me and the animals 118

 

 Penguin Classics  

 

Holmes, Oliver Wendell in The Cambridge Book of Lesser Poets

 

Holub, Miroslav in (trans.) (ed.) (    Miroslav Holub: Selected Poems Penguin Modern European Poets  

 

Horace in  (ed. McClatchy J.D.)(2002) Horace: The Odes (various translators) Princeton University Press Ode I iii    II ii p113  on dropsy; III 24 p 225 last stanza; II iii  we are sacrifices to death; III 22  gods help childbirth

 

Hsieh Ling Yun in Hinton D (trans) The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling Yun p5 healing and the Way; p29 medicinal plants

 

Hughes, Frieda  fr Stonepicker     

 

Hughes, Ted in Alvarez A (ed.)(1962) The New Poetry Penguin Sunstroke 188

 

I Ching  gua 31 Hsien/Xian  uses ascending body parts

 

Ibn Avitor, Yosef, in Cole, Peter (ed.) (2007) The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim Spain 950-1492  

 

Ibn Ezra, Avraham, in Cole, Peter (ed.) (2007) The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim Spain 950-1492  Princeton University Press p190-1 You whose hearts are asleep

 

Ibn Falaqera, Shem Tov in Cole, Peter (ed.) (2007) The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim Spain 950-1492  

 

Ibn Shahula, Yitzhaq in Cole, Peter (ed.) (2007) The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim Spain 950-1492  Princeton University Press: he was a physician. No medical poems in the selection however

 

Ibn Zabara, Yosef, in Cole, Peter (ed.) (2007) The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim Spain 950-1492  Princeton University Press p202

            Be a physician, said Time to the fool,

and murder men in exchange for a fee;

you'll have it better than the angel of death,

who has to kill them for free

 

Isaiah 38 inc Psalm of Hezekiah 5th C BC in Carmi T (1981) The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse  Penguin Classics p163 as well ; 1:2-20 the bodu of Israel is diseased 8th C BC

 

Japanese Tanka: The Court Poetry of a Golden Age Gurgal T (ed.) (1972) Peter Pauper Press NY  no. 2 p32 and no 1 p46

 

Jeffers, Robinson Selected Poems describes skull De Rerum Virtute I p103 (he studied medicine but did not become a working doctor)

 

Johnson, Samuel in The Cambridge Book of Lesser Poets

 

Kazmi, Nasir in Iftikhar A (2010) Modern Poetry of Pakistan Dalkey Archive   He is charming but not perceptive 137

 

Kipling, Rudyard in Cochrane J (ed.)(1977) Rudyard Kipling: Selected Verse Cholera camp 191-2 (rare example of humorous illness poem, the soldiers attitude in severe adversity); A charm 231; A Pict song 246

 

La Fontaine in  (trans) (ed.) (19  La Fontaine: Fables Penguin Classics  

 

Lamentations 4,5 in Carmi T (1981) The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse  Penguin Classics  mentions cannibalism; the black skin of famine

 

Langland, Piers Plowman    p227 you that are the doctor of death shall swallow your own medicine

 

Leopardi in The Broom Vesuvius is a malevolent nurse

 

Li He  in The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry

 

Li Po in Hinton D (trans.)(1996) The Selected Poems of Li Po New Directions (NDP) Drinking in the  

 

Lorca A Poet in New York Penguin Modern Classics  Little Stanton 91-5 (a child 10yo with cancer); Jewish Cemetery 137-141 (doctors)

 

Lowell, Robert  in Alvarez A (ed.)(1962) The New Poetry Penguin Waking in the Blue (also other psychiatry poems in other volumes, later pieces)

 

Lucretius On the Nature of the Universe  an epic poem, at the end, the miasma a cause of disease, from Thucididyes; the plague (end section)

 

Luke is the catholic saint of Physicians. Chapters 4 and 5 relate the medical miracles of Christ.  4:23 Physician heal thyself;  

 

Luzzato, Ephraim in Carmi T (1981) The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse  

 

Maeterlinck Hothouses numerous references to malady of the soul, love is a sickness of 19th c ennui: My Soul 25-7; Hothouse; templates

 

 

 

Manyoshu (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves) no 734 death/illness as moral failures; 758 death; 631-7 old age and illness (there are others not as good I thought on first reading); 831 a medicine hunt

 

Marvell, Andrew  A dialogue between the soul of the body p17 Everyman Ed.

 

Mayakovsky At the top of my voice  note 2: he was employed in making public health posters (but no relevant poems)

 

McClatchy, JD    p145

 

McMahon, Ted  The Uses of Imperfection

 

de Melo Neto, Joao Cabral (ed. Kadir, D) (1994) Joao Cabral de Melo NetoSelected Poetry: 1937-1990 Wesleyan Press pp187-9    doctors orders, possibly an alcohol OD

 

Melville  Camoens (in two parts, Before and After)

 

Middleton C in Alvarez A (ed.)(1962) The New Poetry Penguin Aesthetics p137 (dementia mentioned as ? useful

 

Milosz C (2003) New and Collected Poems 1931-2001  Ecco     

 

  her death in childbirth

 

Modena, Judah in Carmi T (1981) The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse  Penguin Classics p490  a failed alchemist and poet

 

Montague, John in A Chosen Light William Carlos Williams 1955 ( about the great man ridiculed as poet)

 

Moore, Nicholas  Song  The patient  in (ed.) (    English and America Surrealist Poetry  Penguin

 

Mueller, Lisel  Alive Together p186 Monet refuses the operation; about cataracts and impressionism

 

Naidu in Rodensky L (2006) Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu

 

Nash, Ogden   joke, end of poem p28;  Old Dr Valentine 5 poem pp65-7

 

Nashe, Thomas  in Quiller-Couch, Sir A (ed.) (19  The Oxford Book of English Poetry  Renaissance Poetry Volume IIIElizabethan and Jacobean Poets

 

Niazi, Munir in Iftikhar A (2010) Modern Poetry of Pakistan Dalkey Archive  I always wait too long 160

 

Olds, Sharon  The Father  

 

Ondaatje, Michael (1991) The Cinnamon Peeler :Selected Poems  

 

The Orkneyinga Saga  Chapter 57 has miracles and some medical references pp103-8

 

Pacheco, Steve in Louis AC (ed.) (2008) Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets Michigan State Uni Press  Sugar Bowl (diabetes) 46-7

 

Papyrus Chester Beatty I 2ndnd century BC see wikipedia Chester Beatty Papyri and www.humanistictexts.org/egyptlov.htm 

 

Pick Up (Shih Te) in Red Pine (ed.)(trans) Collected Songs of Cold Mountain  Copper Canyon Press   poem 17   cures of the Tathagathas. Somewhere in this book is the Chinese story of a king who used cinnabar for immortality and lots of other rare and wonderful medicines, only to poison himself and die young

 

Pinsky, Robert  Sadness and Depression: Dr Frohz; essay in psychiatrists 

 

Pitter, Ruth  

 

Plath, Sylvia  Tulips; and in Alvarez A (ed.)(1962) The New Poetry Lady Lazarus (Herr Doktor, Herr God, Herr Lucifer); Childless woman p 71

 

Plutarch in Talbert R J A (ed.) (1988, 2005) Plutarch: On Sparta

 

    pp171-5 poems about sickness and old age

 

Pound, Ezra in Imagist Poetry The Garden 95-6 (emotional anaemia)

 

Psalms. See separate document, Hebrew Psalms

 

Qimhi, Yosef, in Cole, Peter (ed.) (2007) The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim Spain 950-1492  Princeton University Press pp197-9 various small flippant pieces about body parts, mildly entertaining and epigrammatic

 

Quevedo, Francisco de in The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance  p471 amorous poem

 

Remos, Moses in Carmi T (1981) The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse  Penguin Classics  has a nice elegy, he was executed for poisoning a Christian, awful story

 

Remos, Moshe (same person as above) in Cole, Peter (ed.) (2007) The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim Spain 950-1492  

 

 

 

*Reynolds and Stone, J  On Doctoring  anthology of poems and other short literature

 

Riaz, Fahmida in Iftikhar A (2010) Modern Poetry of Pakistan Dalkey Archive  

 

Rieti, Moses da, in Carmi T (1981) The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse  Penguin Classics : physician to Pius II but no medical poems here (but what about his whole oeuvre?)

 

Rilke in Letter to a Young Poet Penguin Classics 12/08/1904 writes about being patient and doctor to self

 

Rimbuad in the Penguin Classics edition of poems and letters; see the final letters to his mother and sister.

 

Robinson E A in Three American Poets

 

et seq

 

Roethke, Theodore  Faber and Faber  Epidermal Macabre 18; Academic 22

 

St John of the Cross Nims JF (trans.)(1979) The Poems of St John of the Cross U Chicago  The Living Flame of Love 23; O Cautery stanza 2  (spiritual love as well as physical portrayed as a wound to be cured; death is to be accepted)

 

St Vincent Millay, Edna   Interim; Suicide

 

Salinas, Pedro  153-4

 

Sappho in Greek Lyric Poetry 

 

Sarton, May (1993) Halfway to Silence a book in three parts, of which the 3rd is a long sequence on old age and illness

 

Sedakova, Olga in Bunimovitch E (ed) and Kates J (trans) (2008) Contemporary Russian Poetry: An Anthology Dalkey Archive  

 

Seferis (ed. Keeley E and Sherrard P) (1995) George Seferis: Collected Poems  Princeton University Press      

 

Sexton, Ann (    Words for Dr Y  p25, and August 17th from Scorpio, bad spider, die (1971) ?;

            and, in American Poetry the book collection I have, her second poem is on suicide

            and in Alvarez A (ed.)(1962) The New Poetry Penguin You, Dr Martin; The Abortion

 

Shabaza, Shalem in Carmi T (1981) The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse  

 

Shakespeare, William as usual a profound source: note there are some scattered notes of mine below, but there is a book of Shakespeare medical quotes: see Foster, James

King Lear and dementia 

Lady Macbeth and neurosis Act V Scene I  

note following book Foster, James, [compiler]. A doctor's Shakespeare: a collection of medical quotations from Shakespeare. [United States]: Xlibris Corp.; 2001 - A collection of 740 medicine related quotations taken from Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, and long poems. The quotes are organized under medical headings. Includes index of works from which the quotes were taken and a reading list focusing on Shakespeare and medicine. 

Romeo and Juliet Act II Scene III Friar Laurence making drugs; IV:I

Henry IVth I:III Hotspur mentions parmaceti

 

Shih Te  see Pickup

 

Sidney, Mary (Countess of Pembroke) in (2000) Renaissance Poets Penguin Classics The Triumph of Death 192-202

 

Signs and Humours UK book of medical poems

 

Silkin, John in Alvarez A (ed.)(1962) The New Poetry Penguin  Death of a son 191-2; The Child 192-4

 

Simonides in Greek Lyric Poetry  The Tragedy of Leaves (youth ignoring decrepitude sickness and death); Invitation to Oblivion (alcohol abuse and melancholia?)

 

Sisson, C H (1995) Selected Poems  New Directions Press

            

 

Solomon, 5:2 to 6:3 the Song of Solomon, I am sick with love 5th-4th C BC; was Kierkegaard on about this is the Sickness unto death?

 

Spenser, Edmund The Fairie Queene  I  IV lines 18-35  six sins described in terms of illness; I V 36-44 Aesculapius in hell; IV XII l22-6 Apollo King of Leaches, diagnoses love sickness; VI IX 30  Mynd, not body, causes our ills; VI VI 1-7 Leaches craft; slander and healing metaphor in the Blatant Beast; I X 23-8 Patience as a great Leach, the physical requirements of penance

 

de Sponde, Jean  Jean de Sponde: Sonnets of Love and Death Northwestern University Press  

 

Stanghurst, Richard, in (English) Renaissance Poetry Volume III p27 Physic versus God

 

Stokes, Adrian  Penguin Modern Poets (1973) Vol 23 p147  

 

Stone, John (could be confused with Reynolds and Stone, not sure)    p63  

 

Sung Yu in Waley A (1947 reprint) 170 Chinese Poems  4th C BC  

 

  best medicine.

 

Symons, Arthur in Rodensky L (2006) Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu

 

 

 

Tabor, Eithne (1951)   Sheed and Ward  London Whole book is by a depressive inmate   Ebb Tide and Jeremiah are the best sections

 

Taylor, Edward in Schmidt, M (1998) Lives of the Poets Knopf/Weidenfeld UK  he was a physician p308

 

Tchernikovsky, Saul in Carmi T (1981) The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse  Penguin Classics p516 especially. Dr-Poet

 

Theocritus in  (trans.) (    Theocritus: Idylls and Epigrams  IX Cyclops is addressed to a physician Niciai; no XIII Hylas

 

Thomas, RS in Alvarez A (ed.)(1962) The New Poetry Penguin Evans; On a line in Sandburg

 

Tuckerman in Three American Poets Penguin Classics Sonnets first series VII and XI p96, 98 ( melancholia); the escape from this is God XXVIII

 

Tu Fu (trans. D Hinton) (1989)  The Selected Poems of Tu Fu New Directions

 

 

Tzarfali in Carmi T (1981) The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse  Penguin Classics p454  

 

Vallejo, Cesar   Espergesia (born on a day that God was ill) 65; Trice XIV mentions dementia in days of praecox p81; The Windows have Shuddered ( a death) 119-25

 

Vaughan, Henry  Lives of the PoetsRenaissance Poetry Volume III p he was a country doctor in second half of his life, see the bio. No medical poems

 

Verlaine    whole melancholic series

 

Warm-Water, Luke in Louis AC (ed.) (2008) Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets Michigan State Uni Press  

 

Waterhouse, Philip    MicroPress Oz July 02 p14

 

Waters, Joel in Louis AC (ed.) (2008) Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets Michigan State Uni Press  Rezcars crash (mother abandoned him, O&G metaphors 

 

Webster, John in Elizabethan and Jacobean PoetsLives of the Poets Knopf/Weidenfeld UK  

 

Wei Ying Wu in Pine, Red (trans.) (2009) In Such Hard Times

 

Wevill D in Alvarez A (ed.)(1962) The New Poetry Penguin Street Stroller p233 (I know/ health comes with facing horror)

 

Whitehead, Paul in The Cambridge Book of Lesser Poets   a laudatory epigram

 

Whitney, Isabella in Three Renaissance Women Poets Penguin Classics    

 

Wicks, Susan (1994) Open Diagnosis  Faber and Faber  Whole book a bit closer to lame than subtle, and not generally medical.    p54

 

Wilde, Oscar in Rodensky L (2006) Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu

 

Williams, William Carlos in Imagist Poetry p122-5 (the rain/ is a kind physician)

 

Yi Sha (2008) Starve the Poets! Selected Poems Bloodaxe UK    

 

Yoga Sutras: here Patanjali is the composite God figure: the  god- physician

 

updated: 14/04/2013