John Donne An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism 1968 ...

1968~ 1. AIZAWA, Yo HIHISA. "A Study of Donne's Conccits-In Relationto the 'le n Aristotelian Categories." Bunkei Ronso (jimbun-gakubu,Hirosaki Daigaku) 4., no. 2 (December). 17- 28.Analyzes the relationship between the tenor and vehicle in Donne'sconceits by relating them to the ten ristotelian categories-s-substance,quantity, quality, relation, place, time, position, state, action, and affection.Gives examples of Donne's use of the categories in conceits found in"The Undertaking," "The: Sunne Rising," "The Canonization," "Aire andAngels," and "A Valediction: forbidding mourn ing."~ 2 . ALLEN, JOliN D. "1. Alliteration Assonance Consonance: Spenserto Auden," in Quantitative St udies in Pro.mdy, pp. l-q8. JohnsonCity: East Tennessee University Press.Presents a quantitative study of the uses of alliteration, assonance, andconsonance in selected poem drawn from twenty-five poets from Spenserto Auden, including Donne. See especially the comparative statistical tables(pp. 60, 88, 104-1 2, 116). Notes the high percentage of alliterative frequenciesin Donne's poetry.~~ 3. BAKER-SMITH, DOMINIC. "John Donne and the Mysteriurn Crucis."EM 19: 65-82.Argue that much of Donne's religious imagery, especially his treatmentof the cross of Christ, is drawn from prescholastic sources and informedby various devotional traditions and that when Donne's references to thecro are considered in the light of the complex mysierium crucis traditionmany of hi ideas and references become much more precise , Points outthat Donne may have known Justus Lipsius'sDe Cruce and Jacob C rester'sDe Crucis Christi as suggested especially by the imagery of "The Crosse."Maintains that "the strength of renaissance devotional poetry is its abilityto fuse patterns of feeling and of metaphor that were traditionally distinct"and calls "Coodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward" "a rehearsal of Christianveneration of the Cross" (p. 66). Argues that in the poem Donne "deliberatelysets off the contrasted treatments of the Passion that have comedown to him and the consequent fusion produces the third term, a dramaticheightening that pervades the entire poem and gives to the accumulatedmatter a distinctly individual tone" (p. 8I)."09 4· BEAV ER, JOSEPH C. "A Gramm ar of Prosody." CE 29: 310-21.Reprinted in Linguistics and Literary Style, edited by Donald C. Freeman(New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), pp. 427-47.Studies certain metrical-stylistic features (such as the distribution of stressmaxima and patterns of occupancy) in the first ten of Donne's Holy onnetsand compares them with ten of Shakespeare's sonnets. Coneludesthatthe study "suggests, in Donne, a metrical structure tending to support1 )