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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... critic of the commentary has been Speed Hill, himself a textual editor who finds romance in the Variorum's introductions to the texts of the various poems. Hill has called attention to the recurring absence of an original holograph on ...
... critic of the commentary has been Speed Hill, himself a textual editor who finds romance in the Variorum's introductions to the texts of the various poems. Hill has called attention to the recurring absence of an original holograph on ...
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... criticism rightly implies that merely objective reporting leaves wide open the work of interrogating the record and of bringing together literary criticism and textual scholarship. Some first-fruits of the kind of work that the Variorum ...
... criticism rightly implies that merely objective reporting leaves wide open the work of interrogating the record and of bringing together literary criticism and textual scholarship. Some first-fruits of the kind of work that the Variorum ...
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... criticism from earlier eras, which, if we approached it with conceptions of literary culture that have been defined chiefly by our current interests, we might otherwise dismiss as 'wrong' or uninteresting. WHAT CAN WE DO WITH A VARIORUM ...
... criticism from earlier eras, which, if we approached it with conceptions of literary culture that have been defined chiefly by our current interests, we might otherwise dismiss as 'wrong' or uninteresting. WHAT CAN WE DO WITH A VARIORUM ...
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... criticism to include the constitutive contributions of editors and textual critics, we can already conclude that the data presented in the Variorum have helped to shake off an inhibition, which was partly induced by antifoundationalist ...
... criticism to include the constitutive contributions of editors and textual critics, we can already conclude that the data presented in the Variorum have helped to shake off an inhibition, which was partly induced by antifoundationalist ...
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... criticism in historical contexts. It is altogether beyond the scope of the Variorum to tell us about how the criticism fits ... critics whose work is reported. It is noteworthy, moreover, that in the pages devoted to verbal variants the ...
... criticism in historical contexts. It is altogether beyond the scope of the Variorum to tell us about how the criticism fits ... critics whose work is reported. It is noteworthy, moreover, that in the pages devoted to verbal variants the ...
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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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