Background
McColley, Diane Kelsey was born on February 9, 1934 in Riverside, California, United States. Daughter of Lauren and Lelah (Morris) Kelsey.
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This study explores the relationship between the poetic language of Donne, Herbert, Milton and other British poets of the seventeenth century, and the choral music and part-songs of composers including Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Weelkes, and Tomkins. McColley combines close readings of particular poems and musical compositions with engagement in historical controversy about the significance of the arts, their relation to politics, and the reliability of language.
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This beautifully illustrated multidisciplinary study addresses interpretations of the Genesis creation story in Paradise Lost and other seventeenth-century English poems and in the visual arts from the Middle Ages through the Reformation. It considers poems, visual images, and music concerned with divine and human creativity and interprets these works as salutary examples for the creation of the arts and the preservation of the earth. The central topic is the daily work of body or mind of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost as primal artists and caretakers of nature before the Fall, developing the arts of language, music, liturgy, and government, discovering the rudiments of a technology harmless to the biosphere, and dressing and keeping a garden that is an epitome of the whole earth. These unfallen arts promote awareness of the complex harmonies of creation and potentially of civilization: an awareness that is not only linear or binary but radiant and multiple; not only monodic but also choral. McColley argues that northern European visual artists and seventeenth-century English poets reimagined Eden in order to re-Edenize the imagination as a source of ethical and ecological healing. The best-known depictions of Adam and Eve in the visual arts, which focus on the drama of the all, depart from a widespread but undervalued tradition that more celebratory and regenerative and less susceptible to misogynous interpretation. This tradition includes the neglected topos of original righteousness and contributes to what we would now call ecological awareness. Poets allied to this view foster Edenic consciousness by creating a Paradisal language that weaves form, sound, image, metaphor, concept, and experience as closely as nature weaves life, and so exercises our sense of connections
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McColley, Diane Kelsey was born on February 9, 1934 in Riverside, California, United States. Daughter of Lauren and Lelah (Morris) Kelsey.
AB, University of California, Berkeley, 1957; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Illinois, 1974.
Professor of English, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, since 1979.
(This study explores the relationship between the poetic l...)
(This study explores the relationship between the poetic l...)
(This beautifully illustrated multidisciplinary study addr...)
Member Modern Language Association, Association Literature Scholars and Critics, Association Study Literature and the ENvironment, Milton Society (president 1990), Renaissance Society of America, Milton Seminar.
Children: Rebecca, Susanna, Teresa, Margaret, Carolyn, Robert.