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Poetry: a prognosis.(Critical Essay)
I think it's a fair bet that if you asked most people on this side of the Atlantic who claim to enjoy reading poetry who their favorite pre-twentieth-century English language poets are, they'd say "Donne and Emily Dickinson": on the other side of the Atlantic the odds are they'd say "Donne and Hopkins" Much as I like a lot of the verse of Donne, and a fair amount of Dickinson, and even a bit (a very little bit) of Hopkins, I think this indicates where the trouble with modern poetry lies. All three are eccentrics: their poems are hard to comprehend and seem to stand in need of explication, though their habitually excited tone makes even the uninitiated feel that some kind ...
- The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry: Donne to Marvell.
- Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly Schoenfeldt, Michael September 22, 1996 700+ words
...discussion of Katherine Philips's reworking of Donne's famous compass conceit. But Hobby...wonderfully clear yet justly complex portrait of Donne. Helen Wilcox supplies a fine portrait...existing critical map of seventeenth century poetry, the collection nevertheless does consolidate...
- The Poetry of Immanence: Sacrament in Donne and Herbert.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature Young, R.V. June 22, 2003 700+ words
The Poetry of Immanence: Sacrament in Donne and Herbert. By Robert Whalen...religious orientation of the poetry of John Donne and George Herbert. The Reformation...the sacramental figures in Donne's love poetry, especially "'this cannot...
- LOVE, POETRY, AND JOHN DONNE IN THE LOVE POETRY OF JOHN DONNE(1).(Critical...
- Magazine article from: Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature Young, R. V. June 22, 2000 700+ words
...gloomy assessments of Donne and his work arise...both of love and of poetry. Both of these vital...inventive copia and wit of Donne's poetry. The recovery can be...The interpretation of Donne's love poetry offered here depends...
- Divine deviants; the dialectics of devotion in the poetry of Donne and...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2007 700+ words
...9780820488592 Divine deviants; the dialectics of devotion in the poetry of Donne and Rumi. Mannani, Manijeh. Peter Lang Publishing...Alberta), finds that English metaphysical poet John Donne (1572-1631) and Persian mystic poet Rumi (1207...
- Ideology and Desire in Renaissance Poetry: The Subject of Donne.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly ZIMMERMAN, SUSAN December 22, 1999 700+ words
...Ideology and Desire in Renaissance Poetry: The Subject of Donne. Detroit, MI: Wayne State...identifying textual practices in Donne's poetry and in contemporary literary...historical weight that Corvell asks Donne's poetry to bear translates into a formalist...
- John Donne's poetry; authoritive texts, criticism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News May 1, 2007 700+ words
9780393926484 John Donne's poetry; authoritive texts, criticism. Donne, John. Ed. by Donald R...M U.) presents texts of Donne's (1572-1631) poems...themselves: metaphysical poetry; satires, elegies, and...
- Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Poetry: Studies in Donne, Herbert,...
- Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature Tayler, Edward W. March 22, 2002 700+ words
...scholarship: doctrine and devotion and poetry. During the first half of the last century...metaphor in describing deity and writing poetry, but most of these scholars avoided religious...an influence on seventeenth-century poetry. We apparently needed this scholarly...
- Donne's A NOCTURNAL UPON S. LUCY'S DAY, BEING THE SHORTEST DAY.(John Donne's...
- The Explicator EDGECOMBE, RODNEY STENNING June 22, 1994 700+ words
...death. These are the very images that Donne marshals at the start of "A Nocturnal...light squibs, no constant rays; (72) If Donne begins his poem at a point in time diametrically...having to mourn his wife's death in 1617, Donne turned to this radiant affirmation of conjugal...