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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... fact that poetic lines about how love makes one little room an everywhere and about forgetting the He and She are implemented in Middlemarch as chapter-mottoes. What caught my imagination in the remark 'I never knew that Donne was a ...
... fact that poetic lines about how love makes one little room an everywhere and about forgetting the He and She are implemented in Middlemarch as chapter-mottoes. What caught my imagination in the remark 'I never knew that Donne was a ...
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... fact, to share a mutual hope that in or beyond the grave their hands will at last touch the seals that for forty years they forbore to touch and that they will at last know difference of sex. Ellen does what she can to prepare for this ...
... fact, to share a mutual hope that in or beyond the grave their hands will at last touch the seals that for forty years they forbore to touch and that they will at last know difference of sex. Ellen does what she can to prepare for this ...
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... fact that Donne saw little of his poetry through the press and seems not to have kept an archive of his poems. On the basis of the first three volumes to be published, reviewers concluded that, when it is complete, the Variorum will ...
... fact that Donne saw little of his poetry through the press and seems not to have kept an archive of his poems. On the basis of the first three volumes to be published, reviewers concluded that, when it is complete, the Variorum will ...
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... fact, for all the editors' industry, 'the data will not cohere.'3 This criticism rightly implies that merely objective reporting leaves wide open the work of interrogating the record and of bringing together literary criticism and ...
... fact, for all the editors' industry, 'the data will not cohere.'3 This criticism rightly implies that merely objective reporting leaves wide open the work of interrogating the record and of bringing together literary criticism and ...
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... fact even those who conceived the Variorum had little idea when the project began about how extensive nineteenth-century interest in Donne was and how intensive it became. As recently as the mid-1990s, when they composed a General ...
... fact even those who conceived the Variorum had little idea when the project began about how extensive nineteenth-century interest in Donne was and how intensive it became. As recently as the mid-1990s, when they composed a General ...
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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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