LEADER 02248oam 22003974a 450 001 9910524706303321 005 20230906191453.0 035 $a(CKB)4100000010461149 035 $a(OCoLC)1142391390 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse82067 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88940 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010461149 100 $a20191230d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aThe House of Death$eMessages from the English Renaissance 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d1986 210 1$a[S.l.] :$cJOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS,$d2020. 210 4$dİ2020. 215 $a1 online resource$a1 online resource 311 $a1-4214-3488-1 311 $a1-4214-3489-X 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aLiterature: history & criticism$2bicssc 610 $aLiterature: history & criticism 615 7$aLiterature: history & criticism 700 $aStein$b Arnold$g(Arnold Sidney),$f1915-2002.$01357849 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524706303321 996 $aThe House of Death$93472643 997 $aUNINA