... concerning a period in French literature which is still only vaguely appreciated and which stands in serious need of further study. PHILIPA. WADSWORTH Yale University John Donne: His Flight from Mediaevdism. By MICIIAELFRANCIS MOLONEY.Urbana : University...

...Michael F. Moloney JOHN DONNE AND THE JESUITS By MICHAELF. MOLONEY The early antipathy of John Donne for the Jesuits has rightly puzzled even so eminent a critic as Mario Praz.l The mocking tone of Ignatius His Conclave ( 1610) needs no explanation, since...

...R. E. Bennett JOHN DONNE AND THE EARL OF ESSEX By R. E. BENNETT Walton’s statement that John Donne “waited upon” the Earl of Essex on both the Cadiz expedition (1596) and the Islands Voyage (1597)’ is at least half wrong, for on the Islands Voyage...

... and informed and often provocative. His discussion of the interplay between coterie text and historical contexts should prove valuable for future study of many Renaissance authors. Like any critical study,John Donne, Coterie Poet exhibits the weaknesses as well as the strengths of its critical...

...Margaret Maurer Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 JOHN DONNE’S VERSE LETTERS By MARGARETMAURER John Donne’s occasional poetry does not easily admit the enthusiasm readers feel for his other work. His passionate...

... of John Donne’s Sermons. BY WINFRIEDSCHLEINER. Providence: Brown University Press, 1970. x + 254 pp. $7.50. Winfried Schleiner’s study engages the question, “how original and how heterogeneous are tl!e imagery and metaphor of Donne’s prose and it answers, “not so much as has been...

...James Kuzner With emphasis on John Donne, George Herbert, and Henry Vaughan, this essay explores metaphysical poetry’s strange meditations on the theme of freedom. This poetry displays—vividly, idiosyncratically, and with important differences—what Alain Badiou suggests and what Hannah Arendt...

...Gerard Passannante Abstract Looking at a variety of cases from the early modern period—from debates around astrology to the essays of Michel de Montaigne to the poetry and prose of John Donne and the philosophical fictions of Margaret Cavendish—this essay explores the encounter with materialist...

...Catherine Nicholson Abstract Unlike the works of contemporaries like William Shakespeare and John Donne, Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene (1590 and 1596) is almost invariably reproduced by modern editors with its peculiar sixteenth-century spellings intact, on the grounds that orthographic...

... on the Untimely Death of the Incomparable Prince, Henry”; and the Anniversaries, in The Complete Poetry of John Donne, ed. John T. Shawcross (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1967), p . 354-56, 366-68, 257-60, 270-306. All quotations from Donne’s poetry are from this efition. 2 The Sernion.~of John...

... of Herbert’s poems. The first satire, a decidedly intellectual piece, obviously owes a good deal to John Donne, whose deliberate roughness and frequent difficulty Herbert has all too successfully imitated. The second is more “satirical,” introducing and commenting rather concretely upon...

... greatly to our information concerning a period in French literature which is still only vaguely appreciated and which stands in serious need of further study. PHILIPA. WADSWORTH Yale University John Donne: His Flight from Mediaevdism. By MICIIAELFRANCIS...

... Catholicism in early modern England: can we speak of a Catholic physics? Eggert sees John Donne, George Herbert, and Vaughan as participating in “the fits of cultural amnesia that necessarily surrounded the issue of Roman Catholicism in early modern England” (10). She writes that “Vaughan’s physical world...

... of the reasons why, as well as some of the tensions in the relation of the sermon to verbal expression generally, can be sensed by reflection on two books concerned with the sermons of two major figures in English literary history, John Donne and Samuel Johnson. GALEH. CARRITHERS. JR. Donne...

... the vitality of that near-literary, even subliterary tradition, both in itself and as a repository of literary elements often associated with the grander movements and poets that exploited them. For instance, al- though the poetry of John Donne and George Herbert seemed to go out of favor...

... happily put him to uses entirely their own—and, as often as not, as in Hutchinson, John Donne (chap. 3), or Margaret Cavendish (chap. 5), to uses inimical to the antireligious thrust of Lucretius’s views. The point takes special prominence, for me, in Hock’s discussions of Ronsard and Donne. Ronsard...

... made by Stanley Fish—seems out of proportion with the payoff. The next two chapters explore the poetry of John Donne. Chapter 4, the less successful of the two, pits Adorno’s aesthetic idealism against a somewhat caricatured version of textual scholarship in a battle for the soul of “The Flea...

... by University of Washington 2021 William Shakespeare John Donne George Herbert G. W. F. Hegel anti-song Jonathan Culler’s magisterial Theory of the Lyric , for all its brilliance, cannot escape a problem endemic to all attempts to generalize about a genre. Culler develops a theory of persistent...

.... $6.00. Manley, Frank (editor). John Donne : The Anniversaries. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, 1963. Pp. viii i-209. $4.95. Mayo, Robert D. The English Novel in the Magazines, 174-1815, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1963. Pp. 695. $10.50. Monk, Samuel Holt (editor). Five...

..., January, 1944. Pp. vi + 49. Moloney, Michael Francis. John Donne : His Flight from Mediaevalism. Urbana: Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, Vol. XXIX, Nos. 2-3, 1944. Pp. 223. $2.50, paper; $3.00, cloth. Walpole, Ronald N. Charlemagne and Roland. A Study...