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…
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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…
How did authors such as Jonson, Spenser, Donne and Milton think about the past lives of the words they used? Hannah Crawforth shows how early modern writers were acutely attuned to the religious and political implications of the etymology of English words. She argues that these …
Crawforth presents a major re-reading of early modern poetry, demonstrating its debt to the emergence of linguistics in the period.
Pt. 1. Time and history -- pt. 2. Love -- pt. 3. Religion.
Guibbory collects here her most important and frequently cited essays on Donne, which, taken together, present her distinctive and evolving vision of the poet. Combining previously published work with an original and substantive introduction and three new essays, the author illu…
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 el…
Guibbory collects here her most important and frequently cited essays on Donne, which, taken together, present her distinctive and evolving vision of the poet. Combining previously published work with an original and substantive introduction and three new essays, the author illu…
"John Donne's poems are some of the most challenging and stimulating in the English literary heritage. One of the Renaissance's most human voices, his reputation as a poet has grown steadily since his death in 1631, fuelled by his great influence on later poets such as Coleridge…
