After the Heavenly Tune: English Poetry and the Aspiration to SongAfter 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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... Wordsworth's " Philosophic Song " Wordsworth had a far more difficult time than Blake restor- ing his innate powers as a singer , in large part because he was devoted to a complex process of restoration that confronted directly the two ...
... Wordsworth's " Philosophic Song " Wordsworth had a far more difficult time than Blake restor- ing his innate powers as a singer , in large part because he was devoted to a complex process of restoration that confronted directly the two ...
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... Wordsworth curiously and touchingly predicted when he asserted this , " as Kermode remarks , is that " nature can ... Wordsworth's ability to sing is not only linked to his rela- tionship with nature ; much like his concept of vision ...
... Wordsworth curiously and touchingly predicted when he asserted this , " as Kermode remarks , is that " nature can ... Wordsworth's ability to sing is not only linked to his rela- tionship with nature ; much like his concept of vision ...
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... Wordsworth : Selected Papers from the English Institute ( New York : Columbia UP , 1972 ) viii . 9. See , for example , Natural Supernaturalism 95 : " Wordsworth's paradise , however , can be achieved simply by a union of man's mind ...
... Wordsworth : Selected Papers from the English Institute ( New York : Columbia UP , 1972 ) viii . 9. See , for example , Natural Supernaturalism 95 : " Wordsworth's paradise , however , can be achieved simply by a union of man's mind ...
Contents
ONE Platos True Musician and the Trope | 27 |
Beyond Aristotelian Praxis | 36 |
Platonic SelfRule and Neoplatonic Frenzy | 45 |
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