The House of Death: Messages from the English RenaissanceJHU Press, 24 de març 2020 - 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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... begin to flower and bear fruit in kind. The field was large, its temporal borders were open, and one might review, revise, or refine one's thoughts. But the last phase of dying, even when it conformed in all important ways with the ...
... begins, “In thee, O lord, have I put my trust, let me never be put to confusion.” Trust, longing, hope, praise, and patience are reaffirmed. Deliverance is from others “that are against my soul”: For mine enemies speak against me, and ...
... begin with and develop qualities of individual distinctness. Nor could the powerful sense of identification with the dying other retain, then or later, its highest level of intensity. While present one might well remember ...
... begins here. The summer before death he revisited Winchester College and confided some striking observations to his companion on the journey. After his return (about five months before death), “he became much more retir'd, and ...
... begin, his own repentance thus, needing only to substitute his particular “calling.” But a Dr. Tounson would not find his deeper doubts and hesitations resolved. Tounson's fears at Raleigh's denial of fear were well grounded, and if ...
Continguts
Donnes Pictures of the Good Death | |
PART TWO Writing about Ones Own Death | |
Respice Finem | |
PART THREE On the Death of Someone Else | |
Introduction | |
PainDifficulty Ease | |
Personal and Public Expressions | |
Episodes in the Progress of Death | |
PART FOUR Expression | |
Preliminary Views | |
Thought and Images | |
Tichbornes Elegy 6 Dying in Jest and Earnest Raleigh | |
John Donne | |
George Herbert | |
The Plaudite or end of life | |
Images of Reflection | |
Reasoning by Resemblances | |
Intricacies | |
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The House of Death: Messages from the English Renaissance Arnold Stein Visualització de fragments - 1986 |
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