This study is the first of its kind to analyze the large questions about poetic authority and musical aspiration. After the Heavenly Tune will appeal to a broad audience including Renaissance, classical, and romantic literary scholars; philosophers; musicologists; theologians; and general readers interested in English poetry and literature. After the Heavenly Tune offers an expansive answer to a basic question central to the history of poetry and poetics: what do poets mean when they write "I sing?" 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 poets as Shakespeare, Milton, Yeats and Stevens, all of whom return to the Pythagorean idea of speculative music, or "the trope of song." 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 romanticism, and the resolutions of modernism. Its range of insight, as well as application, is uniquely wide.
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"This book displays considerable scholarship, both in primary sources and in critical ones. Its history of the philosophy of speculative music makes a new and thought-provoking contribution to the understanding of poetry as song." - Diane McColley, Rutgers University
"An impressive work....The provocative readings advanced so clearly and forcibly in these pages must be part of any future discussion of the subject." - Edward W. Tayler, Columbia University
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Mare Berley is assistant professor of English at Barnard College and the president of the Foundation for Academic Standards and Tradition.
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