TY - BOOK ID - 30999313 TI - The figure of the singer PY - 2013 SN - 0191803316 0191650439 0199213984 9780191650437 1299559344 9781299559349 9780191803314 9780199213986 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Singers. KW - Vocalists KW - Musicians UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30999313 AB - Why did poets continue to call themselves singers, and their poems songs, long after the formal link between poetry and music had been severed? Daniel Karlin explores the origin and meaning of the 'figure of the singer', tracing its roots in classical mythology and in the Bible, and following its rise from the 'adventurous song' of Milton's Paradise Lost to its apotheosis in the nineteenth century-by which time it had also become an oppressive cliché. Poets mightembrace, or resist, this dominant figure of their art, but could not ignore it. Shadowing the metaphor is another figure, that of the ER -