Biathanatos: a modern spelling edition
by Battin, M. Pabst, Rudick, Michael, Donne, John
His contemporaries recognised John Donne (1572-1631) as a completely new kind of poet. He was, wrote one enthusiast, ‘Copernicus in Poetrie’. But in the winter of 1614-15 Donne abandoned part-time versification for full-time priestly ministry, quickly becoming one of the most po…
"Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscript and print history of Donne's poetry, this edition presents newly edited critical texts of the poems and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time forward. Textual introductions briefly lo…
"Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscript and print history of Donne's poetry, this edition presents newly edited critical texts of the poems and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time forward. Textual introductions briefly lo…
"Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscript and print history of Donne's poetry, this edition presents newly edited critical texts of the poems and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time forward. Textual introductions briefly lo…
"Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscript and print history of Donne's poetry, this edition presents newly edited critical texts of the poems and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time forward. Textual introductions briefly lo…
Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
Eucharist and the Poetic Imagination in Early Modern England
by Read, Sophie
fromIdeas in context
A study of six canonical early modern lyric poets and the impact of the Eucharist on their work.
Eucharist and the poetic imagination in early modern England
by Read, Sophie
fromIdeas in context
Eucharist and the poetic imagination in early modern England
by Read, Sophie
fromIdeas in context
"The Reformation changed forever how the sacrament of the Eucharist was understood. This study of six canonical early modern lyric poets traces the literary afterlife of what was one of the greatest doctrinal shifts in English history. Sophie Read argues that the move from a lit…
Eucharist and the Poetic Imagination in Early Modern England
by Read, Sophie
fromIdeas in context
A study of six canonical early modern lyric poets and the impact of the Eucharist on their work.
What is the relationship between our isolated and our social selves, between aloneness and interconnection? Constance M. Furey probes this question through a suggestive literary tradition: early Protestant poems in which a single speaker describes a solitary search for God. As F…
Introduction -- Authorship -- Friendship -- Love -- Marriage -- Coda