Milton + Reznikoff + Helen Adam = Cured?

In his review of the Kingsley Amis compendium “Everyday Drinking,” Dwight Garner recounts the elder Amis' cure for the “metaphysical” hangover:

“Amis recommended, among other things, a course of 'hangover reading,' one that “rests on the principle that you must feel worse emotionally before you start to feel better. A good cry is the initial aim.'
Thus he suggested beginning with Milton — 'My own choice would tend to include the final scene of ‘Paradise Lost,’ ' he wrote, 'with what is probably the most poignant moment in all our literature coming at lines 624-6' — before running through Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Eric Ambler and, finally, a poulticelike application of light comedies by P. G. Wodehouse and Peter De Vries.”

All good suggestions, of course, but instead of leaving the poetry behind at Milton, I wonder if anyone has any ideas on the proper lineated treatment for the post-bender spiritual malaise?