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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... comes first and is present , while time has run out . In effect , the illusion is like that of the preceding line but does not repeat the sense of pained immediacy which comes in part from acknowledging an interval , how- ever short and ...
... comes to the master sin of all , his fear of the last , unknowable moment . The good cheer of the exercise in ... come to the master poem , the “ Hymne to God my God , in my sicknesse . " From the beginning the stage is past fear . Peni ...
... come when he turns toward the imagined body and invokes aid for it in his own voice : Look homeward angel now , and melt with ruth . And , O ye dolphins , waft the hapless youth . The answer comes more easily than Spenser's " Dido nis ...
Continguts
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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