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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... youth from his maturity and even more of it dedicated to their metrical properties. There's so much commentary on the Valentine's Day epithalamion, almost all of it positive in its estimation of the poem, that one may be inclined to ...
... youth from his maturity and even more of it dedicated to their metrical properties. There's so much commentary on the Valentine's Day epithalamion, almost all of it positive in its estimation of the poem, that one may be inclined to ...
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... youth, according to which he had spent the late 1580s in Oxford and Cambridge, and on preserving Walton's narrative about a conversion to Protestantism on purely intellectual grounds. Critical writing from the 1870s on the Latin ...
... youth, according to which he had spent the late 1580s in Oxford and Cambridge, and on preserving Walton's narrative about a conversion to Protestantism on purely intellectual grounds. Critical writing from the 1870s on the Latin ...
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... youth scatter Poetrie, wherein Was all Philosophie? Was every sinne, Character'd in his Satyres? made so foule That some have fear'd their shapes, & kept their soule Freer by reading verse? Did he give dayes Past marble monuments, to ...
... youth scatter Poetrie, wherein Was all Philosophie? Was every sinne, Character'd in his Satyres? made so foule That some have fear'd their shapes, & kept their soule Freer by reading verse? Did he give dayes Past marble monuments, to ...
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... youth were Poetry, in which he was so happy, as if nature and all her varieties had been made only to exercise his sharp wit, and high fancy; and in those pieces which were facetiously Composed and carelesly scattered (most of them ...
... youth were Poetry, in which he was so happy, as if nature and all her varieties had been made only to exercise his sharp wit, and high fancy; and in those pieces which were facetiously Composed and carelesly scattered (most of them ...
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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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