After the Heavenly Tune: English Poetry and the Aspiration to SongDuquesne University Press, 2000 - 418 páginas After the Heavenly Tune offers an expansive answer to the basic question central to the history of poetry and poetics: what do poets mean when they write "I sing?" Berley's chapters on Shakespeare and Milton unfold the remarkable development of these two "speculative musical poetics" who are central to the history of English poetry. And in his last two chapters on romanticism and modernism, he draws an intriguing line from Wordsworth to Stevens, in which the aspiration to song becomes a dazzling means of exploring, scrutinizing, and redefining the burdens and achievements--poetic, philosophical, social, and personal--for individual poets in their times. After the Heavenly Tune offers not only groundbreaking studies of The Merchant of Venice and Milton's theory of prophecy, but also compelling new readings of classical and medieval literary theory, the burdens of romanticism, and the resolutions of modernism. This work will appeal to a broad audience: Renaissance, classical, and romantic literary scholars; philosophers; musicologists; theologians; and general readers interested in English poetry and Literary Studies. |
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... inspiration , and his strict personal moral code . Milton was able to combine these per- sonal theories into what I have been calling his speculative musical poetic and thereby to keep the law whole . Milton , like the Mosaic code ...
... inspiration , and his strict personal moral code . Milton was able to combine these per- sonal theories into what I have been calling his speculative musical poetic and thereby to keep the law whole . Milton , like the Mosaic code ...
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... inspired man . " 65 William R. Parker , E. M. W. Tillyard , and A. S. P. Woodhouse , among others , contributed to this view . Accord- ing to Woodhouse , Milton early resolved the tensions between poetry and prophecy , talent and ...
... inspired man . " 65 William R. Parker , E. M. W. Tillyard , and A. S. P. Woodhouse , among others , contributed to this view . Accord- ing to Woodhouse , Milton early resolved the tensions between poetry and prophecy , talent and ...
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... inspiration , " Hanford goes directly to the crux of Milton's theory of inspiration : " when Milton was meditating the dra- matic plans , he already had , in anticipation , ' his singing robes about him , ' though , as we shall see , he ...
... inspiration , " Hanford goes directly to the crux of Milton's theory of inspiration : " when Milton was meditating the dra- matic plans , he already had , in anticipation , ' his singing robes about him , ' though , as we shall see , he ...
Índice
ONE Platos True Musician and the Trope | 27 |
Beyond Aristotelian Praxis | 36 |
Platonic SelfRule and Neoplatonic Frenzy | 45 |
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