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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... tion between sounds and number is " not arbitrary . It is not a metaphor : if we interpret the words properly , sound is simply heard number ; number is latent sound . " 90 Whereas the dif- ference between speculative and practical ...
... tion between sounds and number is " not arbitrary . It is not a metaphor : if we interpret the words properly , sound is simply heard number ; number is latent sound . " 90 Whereas the dif- ference between speculative and practical ...
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... tion and reversal of word order ( " Jessica , nor you " ) suggests , with incongruous neatness , the afterthought one gives to what remains . Silence indicates trouble here , as does an unwillingness or inability to confront the roots ...
... tion and reversal of word order ( " Jessica , nor you " ) suggests , with incongruous neatness , the afterthought one gives to what remains . Silence indicates trouble here , as does an unwillingness or inability to confront the roots ...
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... tion is at once implicated in the ancient cycle and responsible for creating it . Birth still displaces us , separates us from wind and sea , and we wish to be more near ; the imagination can do this , but it must be sure to " endow ...
... tion is at once implicated in the ancient cycle and responsible for creating it . Birth still displaces us , separates us from wind and sea , and we wish to be more near ; the imagination can do this , but it must be sure to " endow ...
Índice
ONE Platos True Musician and the Trope | 27 |
Beyond Aristotelian Praxis | 36 |
Platonic SelfRule and Neoplatonic Frenzy | 45 |
Direitos de autor | |
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