Abstract
For centuries readers have appreciated the solace offered by the Consolation of Philosophy, and students of the work have long attributed its effectiveness to the author’s ideas, images, and style read silently from the printed page. Blackwood bases his arguments on several points, including the vision of music as therapy in Boethius’s De institutione musica, the professed aim in the Consolation of offering poetry as medicine for the soul, Boethius’s attention to meter and metrical repetition in the poems, and the overall importance of the oral/aural elements of ancient literature. [...]Blackwood argues, Philosophy’s discussion of the nontemporal, all-seeing divine gaze works together with her use of poetic anamnesis to elevate the prisoner to the “stillness of divine eternity” (234).
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