After the Heavenly Tune: English Poetry and the Aspiration to SongDuquesne University Press, 2000 - 418 oldal 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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... soul in the poet , Socrates con- firms his reputation as an enemy of poetry . But he is so scru- pulous a critic he makes himself a potentially constructive friend . Socrates is universally strict : even " the soul that hath seen the ...
... soul in the poet , Socrates con- firms his reputation as an enemy of poetry . But he is so scru- pulous a critic he makes himself a potentially constructive friend . Socrates is universally strict : even " the soul that hath seen the ...
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... soul is separated from the body by their power . Filled with God , it strives with all its might to reach the ... soul ( musica humana ) discordant : By the ears , as I have already said , the soul receives the echoes of that ...
... soul is separated from the body by their power . Filled with God , it strives with all its might to reach the ... soul ( musica humana ) discordant : By the ears , as I have already said , the soul receives the echoes of that ...
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... soul is lost through association with the body ( ob consortium corporis ) and forgotten , and hence the souls of the majority are inharmonious . The cure is music ; not , however , vulgar music , but divine intelligible music , which ...
... soul is lost through association with the body ( ob consortium corporis ) and forgotten , and hence the souls of the majority are inharmonious . The cure is music ; not , however , vulgar music , but divine intelligible music , which ...
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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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ability achieve Adorno ancient cycle Aristotle aspiration to song assert become Blake Blue Guitar Christian claim to song conception conceptual metaphor condition of music confront desire discord divine inspiration Donoghue early poems earthly ennobling Harmony Ficino God's hear heaven heavenly tune Hesiod Homer human Il Penseroso imagination Jessica John Keats John Milton Keats Keats's Kerrigan L'Allegro language lative Lorenzo Lorenzo's speech M. H. Abrams Maimonides means Merchant Merchant of Venice merriment merry metaphor Milton mind modern Muses nature Neoplatonic Nightingale one's Oxford Penseroso Phaedrus philosophic Plato play poet poet's poetic song Portia practical music Prelude Princeton prophecy prophetic Pythagoras reattuning relationship Renaissance rhetorical romantic says Shakespeare Shelley Shylock Sidney silence sing singer Socrates soul sounds speak speculative music Stevens Stevens's sweet theory things thou thought tion trans trope of song truth Vendler verse voice Wallace Stevens words Wordsworth writes Yeats York