02248oam 22003974a 450 991052470630332120230906191453.0(CKB)4100000010461149(OCoLC)1142391390(MdBmJHUP)muse82067(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88940(EXLCZ)99410000001046114920191230d2020 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe House of DeathMessages from the English RenaissanceJohns Hopkins University Press1986[S.l.] :JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS,2020.©2020.1 online resource1 online resource1-4214-3488-1 1-4214-3489-X 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.Literature: history & criticismbicsscLiterature: history & criticismLiterature: history & criticismStein Arnold(Arnold Sidney),1915-2002.1357849MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910524706303321The House of Death3472643UNINA