Originally published in 1986.
A major premise of the book is that commonplaces, conventions, and the establis.
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.
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.
Originally published in 1986