The House of Death: Messages from the English RenaissanceJohns Hopkins University Press, 1 de des. 1986 - 320 pàgines Originally published in 1986. In The House of Death, Arnold Stein studies the ways in which English poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries imagined their own ends and wrote of the deaths of those they loved or wished to honor. Drawing on a wide range of texts in both poetry and prose, Stein examines the representations, images, and figurative meanings of death from antiquity to the Renaissance. A major premise of the book is that commonplaces, conventions, and the established rules for thinking about death did not prevent writers from discovering the distinctive in it. Eloquent readings of Raleigh, Donne, Herbert, and others capture the poets approaching their own death or confronting the death of others. Marvell's lines on the execution of Charles are paired with his treatment of the dead body of Cromwell; Henry King and John Donne both write of their late wives; Ben Jonson mourns the death of a first son and a first daughter. For purposes of comparison, the governing perspective of the final chapter is modern. |
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... acknowledged God's blessings , " and his owne sins as penitently " ( 7 : 276 ) . Then he made some last recommendations concerning charita- ble bequests . This was his " Valediction to the world . " A specific time schedule now enters ...
... acknowledged as lament , and the boy has escaped so early . The outburst resembles Petrarch's confessed entanglement in per- sonal weakness . Jonson's answer to the pain and difficulty is orna- mented with a slight fictional design : if ...
... acknowledged and unacknowledged unknowns in death , some of them locked up in mysteries attributed to God's will . Yet the literature on death offered reasoned answers in an unhesitating flow and with the air of comprehensiveness , by ...
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PART ONE Three Essays in Background 1 What Renaissance Poets Would Have Known | 3 |
Answers and Questions | 17 |
Donnes Pictures of the Good Death | 49 |
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