Returning to John Donne

by Guibbory, Achsah

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Full title :Returning to John Donne / Achsah Guibbory, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ashgate
Place of Publication:Farnham, Surrey
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 268 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781409468783, 140946878X
oclc:ocn890792820
LC Classification:PR2248
Dewey Decimal:821/.3

Introduction: figuring things out: Donne's devotions upon emergent occasions -- Time and history. John Donne: the idea of decay -- A sense of the future: projected audiences of Donne and Jonson -- Love. John Donne -- "Oh, let mee not serve so": the politics of love in Donne's elegies -- Donne, Milton, and holy sex -- "The relique", the Song of songs, and Donne's songs and sonets -- Fear of "loving more": death and the loss of sacramental love -- Depersonalization, disappointment, and disillusion -- Religion. Donne's religion: Montagu, Arminianism, and Donne's sermons, 1624-1630 -- Donne's religious poetry and the trauma of grace -- Donne and apostasy -- Donne, Milton, Spinoza and toleration: a cross-confessional perspective.