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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... literary history were as follows: Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Dr. John Donne, Dean of Saint Paul's, 4th edn (Oxford: Clarendon, 1973); A. J. Smith (ed.), John Donne: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975); ...
... literary history were as follows: Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Dr. John Donne, Dean of Saint Paul's, 4th edn (Oxford: Clarendon, 1973); A. J. Smith (ed.), John Donne: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975); ...
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... literary studies when deconstructionist and new historicist critics were calling attention to what had been deferred, repressed, and made invisible during the period when a New Critical approach to Donne had been favored. As I started ...
... literary studies when deconstructionist and new historicist critics were calling attention to what had been deferred, repressed, and made invisible during the period when a New Critical approach to Donne had been favored. As I started ...
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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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... literary culture thus reminded me to think harder about what escaped the surface record of how Donne was read. The intensity with which Possession invites readers to imagine what the Victorians may have seen in Donne, while it pushes us ...
... literary culture thus reminded me to think harder about what escaped the surface record of how Donne was read. The intensity with which Possession invites readers to imagine what the Victorians may have seen in Donne, while it pushes us ...
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... literary culture that, as the infamous controversy about editing Thomas Carlyle's Reminiscences made plain, increasingly looked upon the silences in past records as potentially rich objects for interpretation and speculation. In ...
... literary culture that, as the infamous controversy about editing Thomas Carlyle's Reminiscences made plain, increasingly looked upon the silences in past records as potentially rich objects for interpretation and speculation. In ...
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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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