John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Thomas Carew and Henry Vaughan: these were some of the 17th-century writers who devised a new form of poetry full of wit, intellect and grace, which we now call Metaphysical poetry. They wrote about their deepest religious feelings and their carnal pleasur[...]
John Donne's enormous legacy to English literature is of equal significance in prose and poetry, in religious and secular writing. With popular knowledge of Donne mainly confined to his poetry, One Equall Light makss an important contribution by focusing on his prose writings which remain largely un[...]
This text contains the complete English poems of John Donne. The detailed notes explain unfamiliar words, clarify obscure references, and refine grammatical complexities; they also give the most important variant reading from selected manuscripts. Avoided are any paraphrases, personal interpretation[...]
Donne is chiefly celebrated as a love poet, but he was also the author of magnificent satires and epistl es, and a series of religious poems including the Holy Sonne ts. All these genres are represented in this volume. '[...]
Vid sidan av Shakespeare är John Donne den mest levande och läste författaren från de engelska 1500- och 1600-talen. Han var kvinnotjusaren som blev domprost, poeten som skrev uppsluppna erotiska skrönor och mot slutet av sitt liv befann sig i närmast desperat brottningskamp med Gud - utan att[...]