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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... Victorian poets whose brief idyllic love affair becomes the object of intense postmodernist sleuthing. I already understood dimly that something like a textual erotics was at work in the Victorians' reading of Donne. I had been ...
... Victorian poets whose brief idyllic love affair becomes the object of intense postmodernist sleuthing. I already understood dimly that something like a textual erotics was at work in the Victorians' reading of Donne. I had been ...
Strana xviii
... Victorian publications has it) to readers interested in his marriage and concerned about a Jacobean preacher's place in English history. In the Victorian plot of Possession Donne's love poems are central to the dynamics of the ...
... Victorian publications has it) to readers interested in his marriage and concerned about a Jacobean preacher's place in English history. In the Victorian plot of Possession Donne's love poems are central to the dynamics of the ...
Strana xix
... Victorian poetry quite like her poem's engagement with Donne. Byatt's quite fictional revelation of a poetic John Donne who figured largely but secretly in Victorian literary culture thus reminded me to think harder about what escaped ...
... Victorian poetry quite like her poem's engagement with Donne. Byatt's quite fictional revelation of a poetic John Donne who figured largely but secretly in Victorian literary culture thus reminded me to think harder about what escaped ...
Strana xx
... Victorian key. The bold intertextuality by which Byatt connects her fictional poet to Donne points up a telling contrast between my study and recent books about what the Victorians saw in and did with the poetry of the Romantics.7 While ...
... Victorian key. The bold intertextuality by which Byatt connects her fictional poet to Donne points up a telling contrast between my study and recent books about what the Victorians saw in and did with the poetry of the Romantics.7 While ...
Strana xxi
... Victorians had the same Donne available to them that we do creates a debilitating misperception. By attending to the ways in which editors and readers dealt not only with Donne's poetry but with his prose and with his biography, we can ...
... Victorians had the same Donne available to them that we do creates a debilitating misperception. By attending to the ways in which editors and readers dealt not only with Donne's poetry but with his prose and with his biography, we can ...
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2 Doctor Donne | 15 |
3 A Thinker and a Writer | 46 |
4 Letters | 67 |
5 Sensuous Things | 103 |
6 Donne in the Hands of Biographers | 149 |
7 Donne at Harvard | 196 |
8 A Subject Not Merely Academic | 234 |
Bibliography | 271 |
Acknowledgements | 293 |
Index of References to Donnes Works | 297 |
General Index | 301 |
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