Essays, articles, sites that relate to furthering research and/or commentary on John Donne.
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R. G. Siemens suggests that the tract should be read "as a detached . . . examination of the moral implications of an action," rather than a reflection of Donne's state of mind.
"The strangest pageant, fashion'd like a court": John Donne and Ben Jonson to 1600 -- Parallel Lives
William F. Blissett suggests that a Jonson reference to a "Dr. Done . . . encourages a consideration of the parallel literary lives of Jonson and Donne."
Diana Treviño Benet argues that the sonnets have been widely studied in terms of the poet's theology, but "their recourse to biography" deserves critical attention.
Gary Kuchar reviews Ronald Corthell's Ideology and Desire in Renaissance Poetry: The Subject of Donne.
Claude J. Summers reviews The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne (vol. 6): The Anniversaries and The Epicedes and Obsequies. Gen. Ed. Gary A. Stringer.
Elizabeth Hodgson reviews The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 8: The Epigrams, Epithalamions, Epitaphs, Inscriptions, and Miscellaneous Poems. Gary A. Stringer, et al.
Nathan P. Tinker reviews Barbara Estrin's Laura: Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell.
Elizabeth Hodgson reviews two books: John Donne. Pseudo-Martyr. Ed. Anthony Raspa; John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility, by Dennis Flynn.
Bryan N. S. Gooch argues that the ordering of the Sonnets in Britten's Opus 35 reflects the composer's personal experience of visiting German concentration camps.
Covers the period from Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton, which includes "Donne's Relation to Petrarch," "His Life," "Songs and Sonets," "Letters and Funerall Elegies," and "His Position and Influence."
Suggests that "Donne's colon and semicolon usage reveals several Donnean principles of punctuation." By Emma L. Roth-Schwartz.
By Louis Martz. Ecclesiastical dispute in the British Church as reflected in the works of Donne and Herbert.
Analyzes Donne's poetry in terms of his change in lifestyles throughout his career. By Yoshiko Fujito. [.PDF]
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Ted-Larry Pebworth argues that Donne engaged the 1587 edition of Fetherstone's "Lamentations" to translate the text into English.
"Donne's spatial imagination: its cosmographic assumptions, and its many contradictions," by Lisa Gorton.
An essay by Ian Mackean on the role of love in Donne's Songs and Sonnets.
Magdalena Kay suggests that "Both poets work out their ideas through paradox and syntactic play."
Margaret Downs-Gamble examines Donne's poems in terms of the manuscript culture of the times.
Student essay by John DeStefano.
G. Richmond Bridge relates the octave of Holy Sonnet VII to "the substance of much millenarian thought and preaching."
Claude J. Summers argues that "A Funeral Elegy" shares an affinity with Donne's mourning poems, but "rejects those very qualities of expansive symbolism and abstraction that the later plays share with the Anniversaries."
Margaret Downs-Gamble examines Donne's poems in terms of the manuscript culture of the times.
Analyzes Donne's poetry in terms of his change in lifestyles throughout his career. By Yoshiko Fujito. [.PDF]
[PDF]
R. G. Siemens suggests that the tract should be read "as a detached . . . examination of the moral implications of an action," rather than a reflection of Donne's state of mind.
G. Richmond Bridge relates the octave of Holy Sonnet VII to "the substance of much millenarian thought and preaching."
Diana Treviño Benet argues that the sonnets have been widely studied in terms of the poet's theology, but "their recourse to biography" deserves critical attention.
By Louis Martz. Ecclesiastical dispute in the British Church as reflected in the works of Donne and Herbert.
Ted-Larry Pebworth argues that Donne engaged the 1587 edition of Fetherstone's "Lamentations" to translate the text into English.
"The strangest pageant, fashion'd like a court": John Donne and Ben Jonson to 1600 -- Parallel Lives
William F. Blissett suggests that a Jonson reference to a "Dr. Done . . . encourages a consideration of the parallel literary lives of Jonson and Donne."
Bryan N. S. Gooch argues that the ordering of the Sonnets in Britten's Opus 35 reflects the composer's personal experience of visiting German concentration camps.
Claude J. Summers argues that "A Funeral Elegy" shares an affinity with Donne's mourning poems, but "rejects those very qualities of expansive symbolism and abstraction that the later plays share with the Anniversaries."
Gary Kuchar reviews Ronald Corthell's Ideology and Desire in Renaissance Poetry: The Subject of Donne.
Magdalena Kay suggests that "Both poets work out their ideas through paradox and syntactic play."
Claude J. Summers reviews The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne (vol. 6): The Anniversaries and The Epicedes and Obsequies. Gen. Ed. Gary A. Stringer.
Elizabeth Hodgson reviews The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 8: The Epigrams, Epithalamions, Epitaphs, Inscriptions, and Miscellaneous Poems. Gary A. Stringer, et al.
"Donne's spatial imagination: its cosmographic assumptions, and its many contradictions," by Lisa Gorton.
Nathan P. Tinker reviews Barbara Estrin's Laura: Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell.
Suggests that "Donne's colon and semicolon usage reveals several Donnean principles of punctuation." By Emma L. Roth-Schwartz.
Elizabeth Hodgson reviews two books: John Donne. Pseudo-Martyr. Ed. Anthony Raspa; John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility, by Dennis Flynn.
An essay by Ian Mackean on the role of love in Donne's Songs and Sonnets.
Covers the period from Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton, which includes "Donne's Relation to Petrarch," "His Life," "Songs and Sonets," "Letters and Funerall Elegies," and "His Position and Influence."
Student essay by John DeStefano.
