Author : H. R. Swardson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781479341610
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (416 download)
Book Synopsis Today's Sex and Yesterday's Poetry by : H. R. Swardson
Download or read book Today's Sex and Yesterday's Poetry written by H. R. Swardson and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great poets of the past, we find in this book, deliver more wisdom about love and marriage than anyone writing today: Christian love without any Puritan undertow, love closer to the Romans than to the Victorians, love still represented by Eros — what Spenser and Milton and Herrick show us on the way to deeper and deeper insights into both Christianity and love. With the wit and profundity of a seasoned university teacher Swardson treats inhibition, animality, spirituality, the higher eroticism, seduction, fornication, guilt, the double standard, purity, male chastity, gender equality, spontaneity, anonymity, cynicism, and idealism. He explores courtly love, the concept of the soul, the vocabulary of sin, same-sex marriage, post coital depression, the Playboy philosophy, and YMCA culture. He exposes the "missionary-position" slander and defines "the Christian lover." He gives advice on how to rise above culture and your own DNA. All from points in the poems. Addressed to young people.