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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... course theoretically all the books are still available. If you know in advance just what to look for, you can access the relevant title through an electronic database and order it up. Say you've noticed that in 1819 an editor named ...
... course theoretically all the books are still available. If you know in advance just what to look for, you can access the relevant title through an electronic database and order it up. Say you've noticed that in 1819 an editor named ...
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... course. Still, carrying out so much of my research at Harvard, where Eliot had been a student, it did not immediately occur to me to question whether in the early twentieth century a college freshman was likely to encounter Donne in the ...
... course. Still, carrying out so much of my research at Harvard, where Eliot had been a student, it did not immediately occur to me to question whether in the early twentieth century a college freshman was likely to encounter Donne in the ...
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... course? So I began to explore in archival materials how Donne was taught and studied at Harvard for nearly two decades before Eliot matriculated in 1906. I also made a study of the process by which James Russell Lowell and Charles Eliot ...
... course? So I began to explore in archival materials how Donne was taught and studied at Harvard for nearly two decades before Eliot matriculated in 1906. I also made a study of the process by which James Russell Lowell and Charles Eliot ...
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... course, the amount of space given to the views of various critics does entail intelligent evaluation.) To appreciate the value of these quasi-empiricist procedures, we need to take a long view that holds out the prospect of integrating ...
... course, the amount of space given to the views of various critics does entail intelligent evaluation.) To appreciate the value of these quasi-empiricist procedures, we need to take a long view that holds out the prospect of integrating ...
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... course elsewhere in this book. Each chapter to follow includes detailed discussion of the work of one or more Victorian editors, since the editions contributed centrally to the transformation whereby Donne came to be known again as a ...
... course elsewhere in this book. Each chapter to follow includes detailed discussion of the work of one or more Victorian editors, since the editions contributed centrally to the transformation whereby Donne came to be known again as a ...
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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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