After the Heavenly Tune: English Poetry and the Aspiration to SongDuquesne University Press, 2000 - Počet stran: 418 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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Strana 272
... imagination one conceives . Eventually , the imagination itself can become a fiction ; and it does so because what Stevens calls " the pres- sure of reality " demands that we call what is not real fiction . But to the extent fictions ...
... imagination one conceives . Eventually , the imagination itself can become a fiction ; and it does so because what Stevens calls " the pres- sure of reality " demands that we call what is not real fiction . But to the extent fictions ...
Strana 287
... imagination ; but he must face life's hard conditions . " Hence , he " reduces his verse to some- thing definite and ... imagination through art . " 20 This is true enough , but we must consider what is meant by " the triumph of ...
... imagination ; but he must face life's hard conditions . " Hence , he " reduces his verse to some- thing definite and ... imagination through art . " 20 This is true enough , but we must consider what is meant by " the triumph of ...
Strana 307
... imagination that we spurned and crave.33 Fictions must be " not so like as to be too near . " The imagina- tion is at once implicated in the ancient cycle and responsible for creating it . Birth still displaces us , separates us from ...
... imagination that we spurned and crave.33 Fictions must be " not so like as to be too near . " The imagina- tion is at once implicated in the ancient cycle and responsible for creating it . Birth still displaces us , separates us from ...
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ONE Platos True Musician and the Trope | 27 |
Beyond Aristotelian Praxis | 36 |
Platonic SelfRule and Neoplatonic Frenzy | 45 |
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