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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... truth shall be thy warrant : Goe since I needs must die , And give the world the lie . ( p . 45 ) After an inventory of the world's ills , the poem concludes with one reference to a rule of social custom ( that giving the lie " Deserves ...
... truth of Basilius ' life ; they do , however , put into highly formalized order the griefs and worries re- leased by his death . Sidney would seem to be well aware of the artistic privilege he is exercising . The poems are wildly ...
... truths everyone can understand , but it is the kind of knowledge that bristles and swarms with human efforts to gain and to hold a reasonable control over the certainty and the uncertainties . That too is a common truth , of im- mense ...
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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