..., Donne, Jonson, A4ar~~ell.By ANNEFERRY. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard Uni- versity Press, 1975. 287 pp. $1 1.50. Anne Ferry has done more in her new book than write a series of essays on the ‘love poetry of Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Nfarvell,” as its subtitle announces...

...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 will live as a memorial to a great scholar. One wishes that the author hemelf could have seen her admirable volume in print. JOHN M. STEADMAN Huntington Library The English Lyric from Wyatt to Donne: A History of the Plain and Eloquent Styles...

... language with the fineness, accuracy, and elegance upon which the interest of his argument must necessarily depend. ANNEDAVIDSON FERRY Cam bridge, Massachusetts Hymns Unbidden: Donne, Herbert, Blake, Emily Dickinson, and the Hym...

.... For Donne, according to hhcklem, “both moral and material evil are 266 Reviews the results of original sin”; for Pope, “both moral and material evil are condi- tions of existence.” In essence, then, the argument of The Anatomy of the World is that a real...

... REVIEWS The Wit of Love: Donne, Carew, Crashaw, Marvell. By LDUIS LA. MARTZ. London and Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, Ward-Phillips Lectures in English Language and Literature, Volume 3, 1969. 216 pp. $10.00. The 1Vit of Love is a slim, richly illustrated...

... subtleties that for many readers constitute the chief delights of the mode. It is good to be reminded of the coarser pleasures of Donne’s elegies and saiires-Miner in fact argues thai metaphysical poetry has its sources in elegy, satire, and song-yet we miss the quiet but extraordinary verbal...

... or legislatures—the starting point has to be affirmative.) Nevertheless answers are abundant in Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton . Even where one might demur from aspects of Warley’s project or its articulation, the book’s intellectual demands and critical insights are consistently...

...Douglas L. Peterson Ferry Anne. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1983. xiixii + 285 pp. $25.00. Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 REVIEWS The “Inzuard” Language: Sonnets of Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne. By ANNE...

.... It is riot sufficient to maintain niainly that Quarles “conf‘ront[s] the problematic nature of’ the image” (p. 102); “Hunipty Dunipty” also does that, and so does “To His Coy Mistress.” But to say only this is to ignore the most valuable element of’ the poetry. In the chapter on Donne, Gilman...

... 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...

...Don A. Keister DONNE AND HERBERT OF CHERBURY: AN EXCHANGE OF VERSES By DONA. KEISTER In 1608 Edward Herbert said farewell to his wife and children and set out on a belated grand tour of the Continent. In Paris he was welcomed by Sir George...

...John R. Knott, Jr. WELLS SLIGHTS CAMILLE. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. xx + 308 pp. $21.00. Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 REVIEWS The Casuistical Tradition in Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Milton. By CAMILLE...

... by the roots and abolish all cakes and ale? Not at all. They were written by Ben Joiison (Chambers, Elizabethan Stage, IV, 249). H ALLE~TSM ~TH Huntington Library The Heirs of Donne and Jonson. By JOSEPH H. SUMMERS.New York...

...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...

...Arnold Stein Barbara Kiefer Lewalski. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973. ix + 386 pp. $16.50. Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 REVIEWS Donne’s “Anniversaries” and lhe Poetry of Praise: The Creation of a Sym- bolic Mode...

...DAVE GRAY; JEANNE SHAMI POLITICAL ADVICE IN DONNE’S DEVOTIONS NO MAN IS AN ISLAND By DAVEGRAY and JEANNE SHAMI Rooted in a providential view of history, Donne’s works reverber- ate...

...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...