Lyn Cowan

Portrait of the Blue Lady

The Character of Melancholy

314 pages, ISBN 1-882670-96-5 / 978-1-882670-96-3, Spring Publications

We all get the blues sometimes: how are we to understand what is going on in the psyche in those blue moods? This book, written in a lyrical style with wit and passion, intends to redeem melancholy and restore it to its rightful place in the human psyche, as a Muse of creative force, a characteristic of greatness, and a bittersweet comfort in the sensitive soul.