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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... poet has virtually disappeared from readers' ken for more than two centuries and then been promoted, retrospectively, to so large a place in English literary history? By contrast with the situation of other early poets who have been ...
... poet has virtually disappeared from readers' ken for more than two centuries and then been promoted, retrospectively, to so large a place in English literary history? By contrast with the situation of other early poets who have been ...
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... poet, I aim here to provide an account of a key episode in that history: how, by the end of the nineteenth century, interest in Donne's poetry became by far the most intensive that it had been since the middle of the seventeenth, so ...
... poet, I aim here to provide an account of a key episode in that history: how, by the end of the nineteenth century, interest in Donne's poetry became by far the most intensive that it had been since the middle of the seventeenth, so ...
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... poet does not figure prominently. Rather than examining these anomalies,13 Pask fabricates a plot according to which there occurred a 'radical transformation of the Renaissance divine into a Restoration libertine' (7). His narrative ...
... poet does not figure prominently. Rather than examining these anomalies,13 Pask fabricates a plot according to which there occurred a 'radical transformation of the Renaissance divine into a Restoration libertine' (7). His narrative ...
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... poetic output still further. In the Life, he reserved his most sustained treatment of the poetry until the moment in ... poet's lyrics, from finding the poem biographically revealing. Only at the very end of the nineteenth century did ...
... poetic output still further. In the Life, he reserved his most sustained treatment of the poetry until the moment in ... poet's lyrics, from finding the poem biographically revealing. Only at the very end of the nineteenth century did ...
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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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