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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... speaking of death were for the most part spared the rancor of systematic public dispute. For instance, it was a common truth that death was feared; the answer least likely to stimulate troublesome questions was the master goal of ...
... speak to each other is a question that a student of Renaissance literature lives with regularly. In any case, I have not tried to keep out of this book about the past everything learned from personal experience and from a normal ...
... speak more directly to a modern reader's recognition, in some recent candid words about the fear of death, Irving Howe darts across the intervening centuries to illustrate the calm force of a promise that can move from life to life ...
... , it may continue to speak with and against the new and the newer and prevent the mind from closing its books on what has been and can be convincingly felt. CHAPTER TWO Answers and Questions A Dialogue between two Infants.
... speak against me, and they that lay wait [sic] for my soul, take their counsel together, saying: God hath forsaken him, persecute him, and take him; for there is none to deliver him. The human friends of the soul are the minister and ...
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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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