John Donne in the Nineteenth CenturyOUP Oxford, 21. 6. 2007 - 344 strán (strany) In 1906, having been assigned Izaak Walton's Life of Donne to read for his English class, a Harvard freshman heard a lecture on the long disparaged 'metaphysical' poets. Years later, when an appreciation of these poets was considered a consummate mark of a modernist sensibility, T. S. Eliot was routinely credited with having 'discovered' Donne himself. John Donne in the Nineteenth Century tracks the myriad ways in which 'Donne' was lodged in literary culture in the Romantic and Victorian periods. The early chapters document a first revival of interest when Walton's Life was said to be 'in the hands of every reader'; they explore what Wordsworth and Coleridge contributed to the conditions for the 1839 publication of the only edition ever called The Works, which reprinted the sermons of 'Dr Donne'. Later chapters trace a second revival, when admirers of the biography, turning to the prose letters and the poems to supplement Walton, discovered that his hero's writings entail the sorts of controversial issues that are raised by Browning, by the 'fleshly school' of poets, and by self-consciously 'decadent' writers of the fin de siècle. The final chapters treat the spread of the academic study of Donne from Harvard, where already in the 1880s he was the anchor of the seventeenth-century course, to other institutions and beyond the academy, showing that Donne's status as a writer eclipsed his importance as the subject of Walton's narrative, which Leslie Stephen facetiously called 'the masterpiece of English biography'. |
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... sermons in ' their original unmutilated form ' ( i , p . vi ) . Close inspection shows that Alford had cut two passages from the last of the seven Christmas sermons , the one not marked in its heading for a particular year . One cut is ...
... sermons in ' their original unmutilated form ' ( i , p . vi ) . Close inspection shows that Alford had cut two passages from the last of the seven Christmas sermons , the one not marked in its heading for a particular year . One cut is ...
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... sermons that Donne had written out and then delivered , nor were they transcripts . Donne's typical method , as Walton had explained , was to prepare notes from which he preached . Some sermons were written for publication later ...
... sermons that Donne had written out and then delivered , nor were they transcripts . Donne's typical method , as Walton had explained , was to prepare notes from which he preached . Some sermons were written for publication later ...
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... sermons . It makes it more difficult than ever to imagine that Donne's Christmas sermons may have been attractive and engaging to their first audiences because the texts on which he chose to preach were often surprising , his subjects ...
... sermons . It makes it more difficult than ever to imagine that Donne's Christmas sermons may have been attractive and engaging to their first audiences because the texts on which he chose to preach were often surprising , his subjects ...
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