John Donne in context / edited by Michael Schoenfeldt.
2019
PR2248 .J625 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
John Donne in context / edited by Michael Schoenfeldt.
ISBN
9781107043503 (hardcover)
1107043506 (hardcover)
1107043506 (hardcover)
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
xxxvi, 360 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PR2248 .J625 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
821/.3
Summary
"John Donne produced some of the finest writing in any language about the pleasures and mysteries of love and religion. His restless imagination and voracious intellect invested his poetry and prose with an unprecedented dramatic energy and metaphoric intensity. His work is formally inventive, aggressively pushing against the very generic boundaries it enters. Even commonplace sentiments are rendered breathtakingly vivid and witty when filtered through Donne's singular intelligence. Yet wit and intelligence sometimes come at a cost. Donne can be difficult, deliberately difficult. Even his friends and contemporaries sometimes had trouble understanding his works. Ben Jonson, the Renaissance dramatist and poet, thought "That Donne himself, for not being understood, would perish.""-- Provided by publisher.
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Series statement from publisher's web page.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Schoenfeldt, Michael Carl, editor.
Series
Literature in context (Cambridge University Press)
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Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Chronology /
Notes on contributors
Chronology /