After the heavenly tune
Subtitle: English poetry and the aspiration to song
By: Marc Berley.
Series: Medieval & Renaissance literary studies; Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: English poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Music and literature.; Greek poetry -- Appreciation -- Great Britain.; English poetry -- History and criticism.; Lyric poetry -- History and criticism.; English poetry -- Greek influences.; Metaphor.; Poetics.
Description: "Combining new and old critical methods in insightful ways that themselves suggest the possibility of a new, inclusive mode of literary criticism, After the Heavenly Tune illuminates a subject central to the history of poetry to a condition of song. In prose that often achieves the condition of music it describes, this study is the first of its kind to analyze the large questions about poetic authority and musical aspiration."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-412) and index.