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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... human and “divine” rhetoric. This latter is illustrated by the exemplary expression of the Holy Spirit (as in Scripture); according to Donne, that language works directly upon the human soul and conscience but indirectly and ...
... human fear is an instructive example and one I shall return to in later pages. Aristotle had described the fear of death as the greatest of human fears (Ethics 3.6.1115a), and that quotable judgment was supplemented by a psychological ...
... human endowment of fear, though linked in simple ways to the nature of moral being, retained some intricate, ultimately mysterious affinities with God's providential purposes. Keen observers had noted, at least since Origen, that in ...
... human nature, developed a great body of knowledge, ordering sins and their classes, characteristics, dynamic interrelations, and resourceful vitality. To see these from the perspective of the connections between sin and death was to ...
... human experience of hesitation before the knowledge of death. The loud voice that cried from the cross, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” could signify all the human fears of abandonment by God—as part of the established laws ...
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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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