John Donne in context
"John Donne produced some of the finest writing in any language about the pleasures and mysteries of love and religion. His restless imagination and voracious intellect invested his poetry and prose with an unprecedented dramatic energy and metaphoric intensity. His work is formally inventive,...
| Other Authors: | Schoenfeldt, Michael Carl, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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| Physical Description: |
xxxvi, 360 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Series: |
Literature in context (Cambridge University Press)
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| Summary: |
"John Donne produced some of the finest writing in any language about the pleasures and mysteries of love and religion. His restless imagination and voracious intellect invested his poetry and prose with an unprecedented dramatic energy and metaphoric intensity. His work is formally inventive, aggressively pushing against the very generic boundaries it enters. Even commonplace sentiments are rendered breathtakingly vivid and witty when filtered through Donne's singular intelligence. Yet wit and intelligence sometimes come at a cost. Donne can be difficult, deliberately difficult. Even his friends and contemporaries sometimes had trouble understanding his works. Ben Jonson, the Renaissance dramatist and poet, thought "That Donne himself, for not being understood, would perish.""-- "John Donne was a writer of dazzling extremes. He was a notorious rake and eloquent preacher; he wrote poems of tender intimacy, and lyrics of gross misogyny. This book offers a comprehensive account of early modern life and culture as it relates to Donne's richly varied body of work. Short, lively, and accessible chapters written by leading experts in early modern studies shed light on Donne's literary career, language and works as well as exploring the social and intellectual contexts of his writing and its reception from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. These chapters provide the depth of interpretation that Donne demands, and the range of knowledge that his prodigiously learned works elicit. Supported by a chronology of Donne's life and works and a comprehensive bibliography, this volume is a major new contribution to the study and criticism on the age of Donne and his writing." -- Publisher's description. |
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| Item Description: |
Series statement from publisher's web page. Includes bibliographical references and index. "John Donne produced some of the finest writing in any language about the pleasures and mysteries of love and religion. His restless imagination and voracious intellect invested his poetry and prose with an unprecedented dramatic energy and metaphoric intensity. His work is formally inventive, aggressively pushing against the very generic boundaries it enters. Even commonplace sentiments are rendered breathtakingly vivid and witty when filtered through Donne's singular intelligence. Yet wit and intelligence sometimes come at a cost. Donne can be difficult, deliberately difficult. Even his friends and contemporaries sometimes had trouble understanding his works. Ben Jonson, the Renaissance dramatist and poet, thought "That Donne himself, for not being understood, would perish.""-- Provided by publisher. "John Donne was a writer of dazzling extremes. He was a notorious rake and eloquent preacher; he wrote poems of tender intimacy, and lyrics of gross misogyny. This book offers a comprehensive account of early modern life and culture as it relates to Donne's richly varied body of work. Short, lively, and accessible chapters written by leading experts in early modern studies shed light on Donne's literary career, language and works as well as exploring the social and intellectual contexts of his writing and its reception from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. These chapters provide the depth of interpretation that Donne demands, and the range of knowledge that his prodigiously learned works elicit. Supported by a chronology of Donne's life and works and a comprehensive bibliography, this volume is a major new contribution to the study and criticism on the age of Donne and his writing." -- Publisher's description. Introduction / Michael Schoenfeldt -- Donne's literary career / Patrick Cheney -- Donne's texts and materials / Piers Brown -- Donne and print / Katherine Rundell -- Language / Douglas Trevor -- Donne's poetics of obstruction / Kimberly Johnson -- Elegies and satires / Melissa E. Sanchez -- The unity of the Songs and Sonnets / Richard Strier -- Divine poems / David Marno -- Letters / James Daybell -- Orality and performance / Ilona Bell -- Reading and interpretation / Katrin Ettenhuber -- Education / Andrew Wallace -- Law / Gregory Kneidel -- Donne's prisons / Molly Murray -- Donne and the natural world / Rebecca Bushnell -- Money / David Landreth -- Sexuality / Catherine Bates -- Donne and the passions / Christopher Tilmouth -- Pain / Joseph Campana -- Medicine / Stephen Pender -- Science, alchemy, and the new philosophy / Margaret Healy -- Donne and skepticism / Anita Gilman Sherman -- The metaphysics of the metaphysicals / Gordon Teskey -- Controversial prose / Andrew Hadfield -- Devotional prose / Brooke Conti -- The sermons / Lori Anne Ferrell -- The self / Nancy Selleck -- Portraits / Sarah Howe -- Donne in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Nicholas D. Nace -- Donne in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / James Longenbach -- Donne in the Twenty-First Century: thinking feeling / Linda Gregerson. |
| Physical Description: |
xxxvi, 360 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107043503 1107043506 |