John Donne (Critical Issues)

University of Missouri Press, Edited by Henry C. Matthew and Brian Harrison, — Oxford University Press, John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility. Indiana University Press, The Life and Letters of John Donne: A seminal but outdated study first published in that focuses on Donne as a dedicated and successful poet.

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Walton, who knew Donne and wanted to celebrate him as a preacher, wrote this influential biography of Donne and his contemporaries, first published in Sometimes labeled hagiographic, this study generally portrays Donne as a sort of neo-Augustine who developed from an immature poet into a mature orthodox English Protestant minister. Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content on this page. Please subscribe or login. Oxford Bibliographies Online is available by subscription and perpetual access to institutions.

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His reputation as a preacher was, probably, wider than as a poet, and both contributed to his most distinctive and generally admitted title to fame as the greatest wit of his age, in the fullest sense of the word. Of the many sermons he preached, at Whitehall, at St. Some are still in manuscript. It is strange to find, at times, a conceit or allusion which had done service in the love poems reappearing in the texture of a pious and exalted meditation.

Much of the Scriptural exegesis is fanciful or out of date. The controversial exposure of what were held to be Roman corruptions and separatist heresies has an interest mainly for the historian. From the extremest deductions, he is saved by the moderation which was the key-note of his church, and by his own good sense and deep sympathy with human nature.

It is Donne the poet who transcends every disadvantage of theme and method, and an outworn fashion in wit and learning.

The passage on occasional mercies LXXX. Thus, they cover, though much more lightly at some parts than at others, the whole of his life from the Cadiz expedition to the year of his death. Like his poems, they paint the brilliant and insolent young man; the erudite and witty, but troubled and melancholy, suitor for court favour and office; the ascetic and fervent saint and preacher.

And this is their chief interest.

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The relation of Donne to Elizabethan poetry might, with some justice, be compared with that of Michael Angelo to earlier Florentine sculpture, admitting that, both as man and artist, he falls far short of the great Italian. It cannot be said of Donne, as of Milton, that everything, even what is evil, turns to beauty in his hands.

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Beauty, with him, is never the paramount consideration. If beauty comes to Donne, it comes as to the alchemist who. From the flow of impassioned, paradoxical argument, there will suddenly flower an image or a line of the rarest and most entrancing beauty. But the tenor of his poetry is witty, passionate, weighty and moving; never, for long, simply beautiful; not infrequently bizarre; at times even repellent.