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OverviewOriginally published in 1986. In The House of Death, Arnold Stein studies the ways in which English poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries imagined their own ends and wrote of the deaths of those they loved or wished to honor. Drawing on a wide range of texts in both poetry and prose, Stein examines the representations, images, and figurative meanings of death from antiquity to the Renaissance. A major premise of the book is that commonplaces, conventions, and the established rules for thinking about death did not prevent writers from discovering the distinctive in it. Eloquent readings of Raleigh, Donne, Herbert, and others capture the poets approaching their own death or confronting the death of others. Marvell's lines on the execution of Charles are paired with his treatment of the dead body of Cromwell; Henry King and John Donne both write of their late wives; Ben Jonson mourns the death of a first son and a first daughter. For purposes of comparison, the governing perspective of the final chapter is modern. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Arnold SteinPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Weight: 0.426kg ISBN: 9781421434889ISBN 10: 1421434881 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 19 May 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Preface Acknowledgements Part I: Three Essays in Background Chapter 1: What Renaissance Poets Would Have Known Chapter 2: Answers and Questions Chapter 3: Donne's Pictures of the Good Death Part II: Writing About One's Own Death Chapter 4: Respice Finem Chapter 5: Death in Earnest: ""Tichborne's Elegy"" Chapter 6: Dying in Jest and Earnest: Raleigh Chapter 7: Imagined Dyings: John Donne Chapter 8: Entering the History of Death: George Herbert Chapter 9: ""The Plaudite, or End of Life"" Part III: On the Death of Someone Else Chapter 10: Introduction Chapter 11: Lament, Praise, Consolation: Pain/Difficulty, Ease Chapter 12: The Death of a Loved One: Personal and Public Expressions Chapter 13: Episodes in the Progress of Death Part IV: Expression Chapter 14: Preliminary Views Chapter 15: Thoughts and Images Chapter 16: Images of Reflection Chapter 17: Reasoning by Resemblances Chapter 18: Intricacies Chapter 19: The End Notes Index"ReviewsUsing the traditional method of extremely close reading, combined with a Freudian theory of consciousness, [Stein] offers us without apology elegant interpretations--patient, subtle, probing--of various essays on the art of dying. --Yale Review Author Information"Arnold Stein, formerly Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University, was professor emeritus of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Among his previous books are John Donne's Lyrics: The Eloquence of Action and The Art of Presence: The Poet and ""Paradise Lost."" His George Herbert's Lyrics is also from Johns Hopkins University Press." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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