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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... took ; but when Robert , earl of Essex , set out on the Cadiz voyage in June 1596 , and an extraordinary gathering of young volunteers joined the celebrated expedition , Donne was one of those who took part in it . Here , without fully ...
... took ; but when Robert , earl of Essex , set out on the Cadiz voyage in June 1596 , and an extraordinary gathering of young volunteers joined the celebrated expedition , Donne was one of those who took part in it . Here , without fully ...
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... took away his wife and assigned him the widower's lot . Jessopp had observed that after his wife's death Donne threw himself into preaching . Gosse took up this idea and found evidence in the poetry to reveal that a religious ...
... took away his wife and assigned him the widower's lot . Jessopp had observed that after his wife's death Donne threw himself into preaching . Gosse took up this idea and found evidence in the poetry to reveal that a religious ...
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... took as an undergraduate were freshman courses . Besides the one in which he heard Dean Briggs , he enrolled in only one other English course , Advanced Composition . In his third year he did take Comparative Literature 6b , ' The ...
... took as an undergraduate were freshman courses . Besides the one in which he heard Dean Briggs , he enrolled in only one other English course , Advanced Composition . In his third year he did take Comparative Literature 6b , ' The ...
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