SOURCE: Breslin, Paul. “Jane Kenyon's ‘Manners Toward God’: Gratitude and the ‘Anti-Urge’.” In Bright Unequivocal Eye: Poems, Papers, and Remembrances from the First Jane Kenyon Conference, edited by Bert G. Hornback, pp. 39-45. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.
In the following essay, Breslin explores Kenyon's poem “Having It Out with Melancholy” and investigates the levels and different definitions of the melancholia depicted in the poem.
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