Lyric poetry has long been considered an art form of timelessness, but Romantic poets became fascinated by one time above all others: evening, the threshold between day and night. Christopher R. Miller investigates the cultural background of this development. The tradition of evening poetry runs from the idyllic settings of Virgil to the urban twilights of T. S. Eliot, and flourished in the works of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats. In fresh readings of familiar Romantic poems, Miller shows how evening settings enabled poets to represent the passage of time and to associate it with subtle movements of thought and perception. This leads to new ways of reading canonical works, and of thinking about the kinds of themes the lyric can express.

Many of us live well below our personal potential. Why? Because clusters of self-limiting “toxic” thoughts adversely shape our perception of ourselves and the world in which we live. Less than optimal early brain development and unresolved negative life experiences hold us captive to repeated patterns of self-sabotaging thoughts and their consequent destructive behaviors. Until…Get Up! New Mind Synergy. Get Up! New Mind Synergy, an eight session cognitive-based life coaching program, was created by Dr. Christopher Miller out of his Southern California private practice. After identifying cognitive roots of failure, Dr. Miller assists clients in recalling, reprogramming, and ultimately destroying them en route to establishing a more accurate, positive, and hopeful frame of mind. Clients are then uniquely positioned to create a life success blueprint based on a healthier, more constructive thought-life—all with amazing, life-transforming results! This book expands upon the eight session format, giving readers an entire fifteen session behind closed doors treasure trove of the very tools successfully used by Dr. Miller with clients who have gone on to realize their potential and capture their life’s destiny!

Jane Fisher, obsessed with winning the Olympic gold medal in swimming finds that losing might just be a stroke of good luck