Muses, Madmen, and Prophets

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First published in the United States of America by The Penguin Press,
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“Floating” and excerpt from “Denmark” from Visits from the Seventh: Poems by Sarah Arvio. Copyright © 2002 by Sarah Arvio. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Excerpt from “An Interview with John Berryman,” The Harvard Advocate, October 27, 1968. By permission of the publisher.

Excerpt from “It’s the End of the World According to Carp” by Edward Helmore, The Observer (London). By permission of the author.

Excerpt from The Works and Days, Theogony, The Shield of Herakles by Hesiod, translated by Richmond Lattimore (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press). Copyright © 1959 by the University of Michigan, renewed 1987 by Alice Lattimore. By permission of the publisher.

Excerpt from The Iliad of Homer, translated by Richmond Lattimore. By permission of The University of Chicago Press.

Excerpt from Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance by Johan Huizinga, translated by James S. Holmes and Hans van Marle. Copyright © 1959 by Meridian Books and The Free Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE HARDCOVER EDITION AS FOLLOWS:
Smith, Daniel B., 1977–
Muses, madmen, and prophets: rethinking the history, science, and meaning of auditory hallucination / by Daniel B. Smith.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978-1-1012-0212-8
1. Auditory hallucinations. I. Title.
RC553.A84S65 2007
616.89—dc22 2006050653

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