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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... suggests that they may have been reading 'The Ecstasy' as an injunction to express their love bodily. If Byatt's narrator assigns these poems by Donne the work of recalling to a dying poet a central though well hidden episode from his ...
... suggests that they may have been reading 'The Ecstasy' as an injunction to express their love bodily. If Byatt's narrator assigns these poems by Donne the work of recalling to a dying poet a central though well hidden episode from his ...
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... suggest what may be gained, and what we ought not to expect to gain, from my version of the history of Donne in the nineteenth century. I do not think that there is much in this book that will be of direct methodological relevance to ...
... suggest what may be gained, and what we ought not to expect to gain, from my version of the history of Donne in the nineteenth century. I do not think that there is much in this book that will be of direct methodological relevance to ...
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... suggest an example of what is commonly called the death of the author; they confirm the importance of the hypothesis of an author-function. Yet at the same time they raise historical and biographical questions that recent theory has ...
... suggest an example of what is commonly called the death of the author; they confirm the importance of the hypothesis of an author-function. Yet at the same time they raise historical and biographical questions that recent theory has ...
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... suggests the foundation on which a variorum would be created. It shows how little the Victorians understood, and what they were learning, about the transmission of Donne's texts. These points warrant exploring and will be taken up in ...
... suggests the foundation on which a variorum would be created. It shows how little the Victorians understood, and what they were learning, about the transmission of Donne's texts. These points warrant exploring and will be taken up in ...
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... suggests some ways in which these poems may bear a profound relation to Donne's upbringing as a Catholic: 'Jasper Mayne's Translation of Donne's Latin Epigrams', JDJ, 3 (1984), 121–30; John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility ...
... suggests some ways in which these poems may bear a profound relation to Donne's upbringing as a Catholic: 'Jasper Mayne's Translation of Donne's Latin Epigrams', JDJ, 3 (1984), 121–30; John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility ...
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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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