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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... express a common conceptual metaphor in a way that is linguistically either commonplace or idiosyncratic , " but " an ... expresses a poet's desire to make the vehicle and tenor identical . Speculative poets either in- voke or seek to ...
... express a common conceptual metaphor in a way that is linguistically either commonplace or idiosyncratic , " but " an ... expresses a poet's desire to make the vehicle and tenor identical . Speculative poets either in- voke or seek to ...
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... expresses in PL the same unripeness he describes in his early poems . There is clearly usefulness in defining early and mature work , but when such definition too clearly divides Milton's " hasting days " and " full career " it results ...
... expresses in PL the same unripeness he describes in his early poems . There is clearly usefulness in defining early and mature work , but when such definition too clearly divides Milton's " hasting days " and " full career " it results ...
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... expresses the poet's condition and his attitude toward it : his relation to divine harmony . Just as he contrasts his urgent " now " and God's eternity in " At a Solemn Music , " so too in the com- panion poems does Milton express his ...
... expresses the poet's condition and his attitude toward it : his relation to divine harmony . Just as he contrasts his urgent " now " and God's eternity in " At a Solemn Music , " so too in the com- panion poems does Milton express his ...
Contents
ONE Platos True Musician and the Trope | 27 |
Beyond Aristotelian Praxis | 36 |
Platonic SelfRule and Neoplatonic Frenzy | 45 |
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