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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... remarkable conceptual metaphors rather than ana- lyze what is truly remarkable ( or idiosyncratic ) about them . John H. Long , for example , writes that Shakespeare referred to " common ideas " " when he had John of Gaunt . . . refer ...
... remarkable conceptual metaphors rather than ana- lyze what is truly remarkable ( or idiosyncratic ) about them . John H. Long , for example , writes that Shakespeare referred to " common ideas " " when he had John of Gaunt . . . refer ...
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... remarkable theological poetic . As these chapters demonstrate , Shakespeare and Milton shaped the possible course of future aspirations to song in English poetry . Chapter 4 focuses on the distinctively roman- tic reconceptions of ...
... remarkable theological poetic . As these chapters demonstrate , Shakespeare and Milton shaped the possible course of future aspirations to song in English poetry . Chapter 4 focuses on the distinctively roman- tic reconceptions of ...
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... remarkable , and always maturing , play- fulness with language - even the early groping after puns that provoked Dr. Johnson to remark his " fatal Cleopatra . " Where the opportunities for " words , words , words " are plentiful , there ...
... remarkable , and always maturing , play- fulness with language - even the early groping after puns that provoked Dr. Johnson to remark his " fatal Cleopatra . " Where the opportunities for " words , words , words " are plentiful , there ...
Índice
ONE Platos True Musician and the Trope | 27 |
Beyond Aristotelian Praxis | 36 |
Platonic SelfRule and Neoplatonic Frenzy | 45 |
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