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John Donne in the Nineteenth Century

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 h
eBook, English, 2007
OUP Oxford, Oxford, 2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (342 pages)
9780191526459, 9780199212422, 9780191707216, 0191526452, 0199212422, 019170721X
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List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Brief Notes to the Reader; Preface; 1. Introduction: The Variorum as a Window onto Cultural History; 2. Doctor Donne; 3. A Thinker and a Writer; 4. Letters; 5. 'Sensuous Things'; 6. Donne in the Hands of Biographers; 7. Donne at Harvard; 8. A Subject Not Merely Academic; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index of References to Donne's Works; General Index