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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... Cultural History 1 2. Doctor Donne 15 3. A Thinker and a Writer 46 4. Letters 67 103 5. 'Sensuous Things' 6. Donne in the Hands of Biographers 149 7. Donne at Harvard 196 8. A Subject Not Merely Academic 234 Bibliography ...
... Cultural History 1 2. Doctor Donne 15 3. A Thinker and a Writer 46 4. Letters 67 103 5. 'Sensuous Things' 6. Donne in the Hands of Biographers 149 7. Donne at Harvard 196 8. A Subject Not Merely Academic 234 Bibliography ...
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... cultural frameworks in which Donne is lodged, the writer of passionate poetry now has a decided priority over the subject of Walton's hagiographical narrative. That transformation is the subject of this book. When McCowen gave his ...
... cultural frameworks in which Donne is lodged, the writer of passionate poetry now has a decided priority over the subject of Walton's hagiographical narrative. That transformation is the subject of this book. When McCowen gave his ...
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... 88, and Joseph Duncan, The Revival of Metaphysical Poetry, The History of a Style, 1800 to the Present (Minneapolis, MN: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1959). Another aspect of the climate of literary and cultural studies Preface xvii.
... 88, and Joseph Duncan, The Revival of Metaphysical Poetry, The History of a Style, 1800 to the Present (Minneapolis, MN: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1959). Another aspect of the climate of literary and cultural studies Preface xvii.
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Dayton Haskin. Another aspect of the climate of literary and cultural studies in the late twentieth century provided just the right sort of challenge: Donne's stock was on the decline, and it was no longer possible to write as if his ...
Dayton Haskin. Another aspect of the climate of literary and cultural studies in the late twentieth century provided just the right sort of challenge: Donne's stock was on the decline, and it was no longer possible to write as if his ...
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... cultural assumptions and interests that have generated diverse and often highly contradictory constructions of the author. In Chapter 1 I will argue that this is what is of greatest interest in a variorum commentary. Here I will simply ...
... cultural assumptions and interests that have generated diverse and often highly contradictory constructions of the author. In Chapter 1 I will argue that this is what is of greatest interest in a variorum commentary. Here I will simply ...
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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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