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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... written at the University of Uppsala proved a bibliographical godsend for the period from 1779 to 1873. Working primarily at Harvard, and also at Yale's Sterling Library and at the British Library, I scoured hundreds of old books and ...
... written at the University of Uppsala proved a bibliographical godsend for the period from 1779 to 1873. Working primarily at Harvard, and also at Yale's Sterling Library and at the British Library, I scoured hundreds of old books and ...
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... written by Byatt herself, its presence helps to make good the claim that modernist poets discovered 'the metaphysicals': for all Byatt's reading of Donne through spectacles that she borrows from Coleridge and Browning and George Eliot ...
... written by Byatt herself, its presence helps to make good the claim that modernist poets discovered 'the metaphysicals': for all Byatt's reading of Donne through spectacles that she borrows from Coleridge and Browning and George Eliot ...
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... written by remarking that 'Donne belongs to the class of failures in literature—failures, that is to say, for the purpose of making an enduring mark, of accomplishing work which should be a perpetual possession to humanity.' This was a ...
... written by remarking that 'Donne belongs to the class of failures in literature—failures, that is to say, for the purpose of making an enduring mark, of accomplishing work which should be a perpetual possession to humanity.' This was a ...
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... written most of his poetry before Walton was even born (in 1593). It also emphasized the activity of writing and its effects, rather than the finished products themselves: Did his youth scatter Poetrie, wherein Was all Philosophie? Was ...
... written most of his poetry before Walton was even born (in 1593). It also emphasized the activity of writing and its effects, rather than the finished products themselves: Did his youth scatter Poetrie, wherein Was all Philosophie? Was ...
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... written before the twentieth year of his age) it may appear by his choice Metaphors, that both Nature and all the Arts joyned to assist him with their utmost skill. Even as he praised Donne's wit by proposing that his poetic ...
... written before the twentieth year of his age) it may appear by his choice Metaphors, that both Nature and all the Arts joyned to assist him with their utmost skill. Even as he praised Donne's wit by proposing that his poetic ...
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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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