
Melancholy in lieu of Recantation: Ezra Pound’s “Drafts and Fragments”
Author(s) -
Hélène Aji
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
e-rea
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1638-1718
DOI - 10.4000/erea.364
Subject(s) - pound (networking) , art , literature , history , computer science , world wide web
From the clinical point of view, melancholy is this moment of stasis in between two active stages in the development of depression, a moment of transition in which the patient measures the extent of his suffering and recognizes his powerlessness in despair and often in silence. First medical descriptions and diagnoses of melancholy date back to Hippocrates, and the detailed enumerations of its symptoms are also to be found in literature, be it through the observation of others or as a result ..