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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... materials published before the twentieth century generally come from the earliest printed version of a book or article. When it is pertinent to quote a different version, I do so. For instance, in citing Izaak Walton's Life of Donne, I ...
... materials published before the twentieth century generally come from the earliest printed version of a book or article. When it is pertinent to quote a different version, I do so. For instance, in citing Izaak Walton's Life of Donne, I ...
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... materials poignantly, and Donne's remarks sounded an intimate resonance as the lines between the actor and the preacher disappeared. In putting together the script, McCowen had been able to count on there being members of the audience ...
... materials poignantly, and Donne's remarks sounded an intimate resonance as the lines between the actor and the preacher disappeared. In putting together the script, McCowen had been able to count on there being members of the audience ...
Strana xv
... material in which I could begin to explore questions about when and how this reversal in Donne's identity had taken place. A few years earlier I had accepted an invitation to work on the project that would create The Variorum Edition of ...
... material in which I could begin to explore questions about when and how this reversal in Donne's identity had taken place. A few years earlier I had accepted an invitation to work on the project that would create The Variorum Edition of ...
Strana xvi
... materials had grown so large that more often than not I felt relieved (and a bit guilty for that) when an item could be dismissed as 'not pertinent.' Having clear criteria that allowed me to ignore large amounts of material, I made ...
... materials had grown so large that more often than not I felt relieved (and a bit guilty for that) when an item could be dismissed as 'not pertinent.' Having clear criteria that allowed me to ignore large amounts of material, I made ...
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... material finding that my research had turned up: that something like three-quarters of the pages I had photocopied had ... materials that I had hitherto tried to ignore: Donne's prose, nineteenth-century editions of his writings, and ...
... material finding that my research had turned up: that something like three-quarters of the pages I had photocopied had ... materials that I had hitherto tried to ignore: Donne's prose, nineteenth-century editions of his writings, and ...
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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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