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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... period. Finding all the books and articles in which Donne's poetry had been discussed for a hundred years was a challenging task; scholarship on the nineteenth-century revival turned out to be spotty, and often it proved misleading.2 ...
... period. Finding all the books and articles in which Donne's poetry had been discussed for a hundred years was a challenging task; scholarship on the nineteenth-century revival turned out to be spotty, and often it proved misleading.2 ...
Strana xvi
... order and wrote a general history of Donne's love poetry in the period. The results are to become available whenever the relevant parts of the Variorum are at last published. (At the time I am writing, three and a xvi Preface.
... order and wrote a general history of Donne's love poetry in the period. The results are to become available whenever the relevant parts of the Variorum are at last published. (At the time I am writing, three and a xvi Preface.
Strana xvii
... period when a New Critical approach to Donne had been favored. As I started taking an interest in questions about how 'Donne' had come popularly to denominate a poet rather than a preacher, contemporary critical perspectives offered ...
... period when a New Critical approach to Donne had been favored. As I started taking an interest in questions about how 'Donne' had come popularly to denominate a poet rather than a preacher, contemporary critical perspectives offered ...
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... period. About half of Gill's book is devoted to the creative engagement of Tennyson and Arnold, George Eliot and others with the poetry of Wordsworth. That a book about Donne's nineteenth-century afterlife cannot afford proportionate ...
... period. About half of Gill's book is devoted to the creative engagement of Tennyson and Arnold, George Eliot and others with the poetry of Wordsworth. That a book about Donne's nineteenth-century afterlife cannot afford proportionate ...
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... period. When the volume devoted to the Songs and Sonnets appears, we will see that in the last decade of the nineteenth century commentary on the love poetry proliferated dramatically. There is no need, however, to await the complete ...
... period. When the volume devoted to the Songs and Sonnets appears, we will see that in the last decade of the nineteenth century commentary on the love poetry proliferated dramatically. There is no need, however, to await the complete ...
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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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