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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... attention to what is innovative in the work on the text: the textual editors, acting in response to Donne's having circulated his poems in manuscript, are creating an unprecedented genealogical edition. Their work takes more seriously ...
... attention to what is innovative in the work on the text: the textual editors, acting in response to Donne's having circulated his poems in manuscript, are creating an unprecedented genealogical edition. Their work takes more seriously ...
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... attention that they accord to textual matters. The texts of Donne's poems occupy fewer than one hundred pages in these two volumes. More than seventy-five pages are given to reporting a history of textual transmission and to explaining ...
... attention that they accord to textual matters. The texts of Donne's poems occupy fewer than one hundred pages in these two volumes. More than seventy-five pages are given to reporting a history of textual transmission and to explaining ...
Strana 5
... attention to the commentary, that everyone always reads Donne in physical artifacts that help to constitute their literary experience. Nonetheless, the Variorum is radically limited when it comes to helping us imagine the experience of ...
... attention to the commentary, that everyone always reads Donne in physical artifacts that help to constitute their literary experience. Nonetheless, the Variorum is radically limited when it comes to helping us imagine the experience of ...
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... attention. When we turn to the poems that appear in Volume 8 and encounter first the Epigrams, it is striking that while there has been little writing about these poems, they were nonetheless once held in relatively high esteem.8 ...
... attention. When we turn to the poems that appear in Volume 8 and encounter first the Epigrams, it is striking that while there has been little writing about these poems, they were nonetheless once held in relatively high esteem.8 ...
Strana 8
... attention directed to Donne in the 1890s, when two new editions appeared, followed by the first book-length treatments of Donne ever published. The Variorum has made it timely to examine the functions and effects of the myth according ...
... attention directed to Donne in the 1890s, when two new editions appeared, followed by the first book-length treatments of Donne ever published. The Variorum has made it timely to examine the functions and effects of the myth according ...
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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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