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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... witnesses—took part in dialogues and were alternately an immediate audience who could also represent a larger audience of readers. The sequence of conflicts and temptations instructed the living, added suspense to the plot, and could ...
... witness and mourner. When one brought the lessons home and resumed one's life, the unquestionable answers were not ... witnesses, would know the ruling expectations and to some degree the nature of possible interference and the correct ...
... witnesses. One recognizes that a protagonist may retain some of the detached view of a spectator, by force of keen intellectual capacity, but he may also resemble an incompetent spectator and suffer from a numbing disablement. (One sees ...
... witnesses, the direct eloquence of the eulogist, and the supplementary evidence of God's design to be noted by analogies drawn from the sacred calendar of events in time. He is conservative with no sense of strain. But he also writes ...
... witness, my own author. (p. 202) Wondering what further to say or not say, he tapped at the paper with his pen top: I reflected how in that brief interval time was flowing on, and I was flowing with it, slipping down, departing, or to ...
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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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