The Complete Poems of John Donne

The Complete Poems of John Donne

Author: Robin Robbins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-06

Total Pages: 1121

ISBN-13: 1317862031

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The Poems of John Donne is one volume paperback edition of the poems of John Donne (1572-1631) based on a comprehensive re-evaluation of his work from composition to circulation and reception. Donne’s output is tremendously varied in style and form and demonstrates his ability to exercise his rhetorical capabilities according to context and occasion. This edition aims to present the text of all his known poems, from the epigrams, songs and satires written for fellow young men about town, to the more mature verse-epistles and memorial elegies written for his patrons. The Longman Annotated English Poets series traditionally aims to present poems in chronological order; in this edition, however, the principle has been observed only within generic sections. This organisation reproduces the manner in which Donne’s original readers first encountered the poems in the various manuscripts of his elegies and satires that circulated in Donne’s lifetime. Volume One contains the Epigrams, Verse Letters to Friends, Love Lyrics, Love Elegies and Satires; Volume Two contains the religious poems, Wedding Celebrations, Verse Epistles to Patronesses, Commemorations, and the Anniversaries. The lyrics have been arranged alphabetically for ease of reference and because, in all but a few cases, precise date of composition is impossible to determine. Each poem has extensive editorial commentary designed to put the twenty-first century reader in possession of all that is necessary fully to appreciate Donne’s work. A substantial headnote sets each poem in its historical and literary context, while the annotations give detailed guidance on the wealth of classical and religious allusions and give full representation to the literary, historical and philosophical culture out of which the poems grew. In keeping with the traditions of the series, Donne’s own text has been modernised in punctuation and spelling except where to do so would alter or disrupt a rhyme.


John Donne

John Donne

Author: John Carey

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2011-11-03

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0571280781

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'Donne is perhaps the most intellectual of English poets, and John Carey is perhaps the most intelligent of contemporary English literary critics. The encounter, as one might expect, is fierce and enthralling... This book is sensitive, searching, powerful, exciting, provocative and witty. It is a superb achievement.' Christopher Hill, TLS John Donne: Life, Mind and Art is a unique attempt to see Donne whole. Beginning with an account of his life, it takes as its domain not only the whole range of the poetry, but also the sermons, the letters, the spiritual and controversial works, and such highly personal documents as the treatise on suicide. The result is a clearer picture than has hitherto emerged of one of the most intricate and compelling of literary personalities. 'The one book we have needed all along... A magnificent exercise in reappraisal. I have never read a critical work which reaches as deeply inside the mind of its subject.' Jonathan Raban, Sunday Times 'Carey's book is itself alive with the kind of energy it attributes to Donne.' Christopher Ricks, London Review of Books


Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Author: Philip Martin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-06-24

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780521144636

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This study closely analyses sonnets to bring out what they can tell us of different kinds of love, particularly self-love, the relation of these to the world of natural growth and temporal succession, and finally the ways in which art can properly be defined as a form of love.


The Poems of John Donne: Volume One

The Poems of John Donne: Volume One

Author: Robin Robbins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-11

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 1317905334

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John Donne (1572-1631) is firmly fixed in the canon of English literature. "No man is an island" and "For whom the bell tolls" are just two of his phrases known by virtually everyone. The Poems of John Donne is a two volume edition of Donnes poems based on a comprehensive re-evaluation of his work from composition to circulation and reception. Donnes output is tremendously varied in style and form and demonstrates his ability to change his writing according to context and occasion. This edition presents the text of all his known poems, from the epigrams, songs and satires written for fellow young men about town, to the more mature verse-epistles and memorial elegies written for his patrons. Volume One contains the Epigrams, Verse Letters to Friends, Love Lyrics, Love Elegies and Satires.


The Songs and Sonets of John Donne

The Songs and Sonets of John Donne

Author: John Donne

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780674032477

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There may be no finer edition of Donne's Songs and Sonets than Redpath's annotated volume. Out of print for a decade, it is reprinted here in its second, revised edition. The book's twofold origin is evident on every page of commentary: it arises partly from a life of scholarship and partly from Redpath's experiences as a teacher.


Factions' Fictions

Factions' Fictions

Author: Daniel Eilon

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780874133912

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An understanding of the linguistic, political, and moral ramifications of Private Spirit (the parochialism and partiality typical of clubs, parties, and cabals) provides insights into the logic behind Swiftian polemic and satire. Swiftian satire, an essentially private joke offering exclusive satisfaction to an elite fraternity of insiders, is shown to be a creative rhetorical adaption of private spirit.


Song and sonnets. Canzoni e sonetti

Song and sonnets. Canzoni e sonetti

Author: John Donne

Publisher: Luigi Pellegrini Editore

Published: 2019-03-27

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 8868227819

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John Donne, uno dei massimi poeti inglesi, visse tra la seconda metà del XVI secolo e la prima metà del XVII secolo: epoca di grandi fermenti e di intensi scambi. È un poeta che esprime, meglio di tanti altri, le tensioni della sua età e l’esigenza di allungare lo sguardo sulla vita, la cultura e la letteratura del Continente europeo, in particolare, dell’Italia, della Francia e della Spagna, paesi visitati dal poeta. John Donne, che non aveva reciso del tutto le radici medioevali, avvertì, inevitabilmente, gli effetti dell’impatto col pensiero scientifico e critico della nuova cultura rinascimentale, profondamente segnata dal naturalismo telesiano, dal De Revolutionibus Orbium coelestium (1543), in cui Niccolò Copernico propone il sistema eliocentrico, in opposizione a quello geocentrico di Tolomeo e, nel campo della ricerca filosofica, dall’empirismo, teorizzato da Francis Bacon nel suo Novum Organum del 1621, che afferma l’importanza, ai fini della conoscenza, della percezione sensoriale, vagliate dalla critica dell’intelletto. Punto terminale di tale processo è il razionalismo di Descartes (XVII secolo), che afferma la funzione del pensiero come attività. zIl XVII secolo, in cui forti sono ancora la coscienza e la cultura medievali, è un periodo nevralgico per la storia della civiltà inglese: il passaggio all’età moderna non è più procrastinabile. Nel campo della poesia è, appunto, John Donne che rompe, definitivamente, gli argini, accostando la Fede a certe verità obiettive, ad esempio, all’amore. Tale scelta fa emergere il conflitto tra passione e ragione, certamente, motivo di turbamento della coscienza dell’individuo; ma, d’altro canto, come si fa a pensare alla vita, prescindendo dall’amore e dalla passione, che sono verità connaturali all’essere? E John Donne, esaltando e valorizzando quest’ultima connotazione, risolve il dissidio a suo modo e, perciò, intreccia i temi dello spirito e dei sensi, e lo fa con assoluta naturalezza e senza reticenze. Lo spirito del Medioevo non si è, però, ancora spento, e il poeta si rende conto che certe questioni possono toccare la suscettibilità dell’individuo e, perciò, egli affronta tali argomenti con sincerità e chiarezza, ma da poeta autentico ed esperto, ricorre, con grande perizia, ad una pedagogia molto efficace, che non disdegna l’uso di strumenti di notevole effetto e suggestione, consolidati, ormai, nella poesia, come l’emblematismo, la similitudine, l’allegoria, la metafora. E l’esito è, in molti casi, straordinario, tale da garantire a John Donne un posto di assoluto preminenza nella letteratura non solo inglese.


The Elizabethan Mind

The Elizabethan Mind

Author: Helen Hackett

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2022-01-01

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 0300207204

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The first comprehensive guide to Elizabethan ideas about the mind What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and soul? These questions were as perplexing for the Elizabethans as they are for us today--although their answers were often startlingly different. Shakespeare and his contemporaries believed the mind was governed by the humours and passions, and was susceptible to the Devil's interference. In this insightful and wide-ranging account, Helen Hackett explores the intricacies of Elizabethan ideas about the mind. This was a period of turbulence and transition, as persistent medieval theories competed with revived classical ideas and emerging scientific developments. Drawing on a wealth of sources, Hackett sheds new light on works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Sidney, and Spenser, demonstrating how ideas about the mind shaped new literary and theatrical forms. Looking at their conflicted attitudes to imagination, dreams, and melancholy, Hackett examines how Elizabethans perceived the mind, soul, and self, and how their ideas compare with our own.