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After the Heavenly Tune: English Poetry and the Aspiration to Song (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies),Used
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Why, after Homer, do most of the Wests greatest poets from Virgil to Wallace Stevens, write that they sing when in fact they write? After the Heavenly Tune offers an expansive answer to this engaging question. Beginning with the complex relationship between music and poetry in the West defined and refined by Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Boethius, and Sidney Berley then examines the writings of such major English poets as Shakespeare, Milton, Yeats and Stevens, all of whom return to the Pythagorean idea of speculative music, or "the trope of song."Berley's chapters on Shakespeare and Milton unfold the remarkable development of the two "speculative musical poetics" most central to the history of English poetry. His last two chapters on romanticism and modernism draw 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 of individual poets in their times. Uncovering the deeper meanings behind the metaphor of song, Berley concludes by relating ancient, Renaissance, modernist and postmodernist aspirations, including those of such theorists and composers as Adorno, Schoenberg and Wittgenstein.Combining new and old critical methods in insightful ways, this study is the first of its kind to analyze the large questions about poetic authority and musical aspiration. Written in prose that often achieves the condition of music it describes, After the Heavenly Tune illuminates a subject central to the history of poetry and poetics the aspiration of poetry to a condition of song.
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