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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... poets just after a long war lost and won. I was thirty years old and had become acquainted with battlefield death. A few years later, in a world that paid special attention to important public funerals, usually preceded by carefully ...
... poets conserving, remembering, restoring, even in the midst of change. The sameness of death and the unchallenged rules for ... poet's own death and poems responding to the death of another. The first of these (Part 2) develops its ...
... sources, however, and what I most value, are those that become the “messages” of individual poets as they express and renew some of our best knowledge and self-knowledge. Acknowledgments John Hollander read the manuscript of this book with.
... poets had available, from the history of thinking about death, a rich vocabulary of feeling and representation and an extensive literature to draw from. Death spoken of in a crisis of feeling, as that of a lyric occasion, will ...
... poets have known of the thinking about death? The main ideas were few, but in their implications, when brought to bear upon individual experience, they were of inexhaustible interest. The records are voluminous, and the history of ...
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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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The House of Death: Messages from the English Renaissance Arnold Stein Visualització de fragments - 1986 |
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