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

A Bibliograph y of Criticismrange of the verse epistle and to illu tratc the difference between Donne'sand Dryden's concepts of the role of the poet in ocieLy. Suggests that,whereas Donne's epistle is colloquial, intimate, and private, Dryden's ismore structurally unified and formal and reflects his notion of the poet aspublic spokesman or cultural orator.~~ 9. COOPER, JOHN It The Art of The Compleat Angler. Durham:Duke University Press. vii, zoop .Comments on Dormes relationship with Izaak \-Valton. Calls "The Baite,"which Walton included in The Compleat Angler, " 3 kind of piscatorialpastoral of Marlowe's 'Come live with me" (p. 61). Suggests that the secondsection of Robert Boyle's Occasional Reflections (1665) is reminiscentof Donne.f.-o!!~ 10. DONNE, JOHN. T he Poems of John Donne. Selected, introduced,and annotated by Frank Kermode. Wooel engravings by Imre Reiner.Cambridge: Printed for the Members of The Limited EditionsClub at the University Printing House. xxiv, 198P.Reprinted: lew York: T he Heritage Press. 1970 .First edition limited to 1,500 copies. In the introduction (pp. xi-xxi)Kcrmode presents a brief biographical sketch of Donn e and a critical evaluationof hi poetry. Maintains that Donne created a new poetry, whichwas often debased by less qualified imitators; comments on certain majorcharacteristics of Donne's poetry (blend of argument and passion; uses ofparadox and analogy; wit and obscurity); and claims that it is "one of thegreatachievements of taste and scholarship over the past century that thepower and colour of Don ne's poetry have been restored, and are seen tobe capable of an immediate impact on the modern mind " (p. xxi), NoteOil the text (pp. xxiii-xxiv) points 0 111 that the text is based primarily 0 11John Hayward's onesuch edition (19 29) but follows Helen Gardners textfor the Elegies and her ordering of the Holy Sonnets; occasionally variesfrom Hayward's edition of the Songs and Soneis, preferring Cr ierson or.ardner; and accepts Manley's edition of The Anniversaries. Selections.\ ith notes, from the Songs and onets. Epigrams, Elegies, Epithalamions,Sc ryres, Verse Leiters, The An1liversaries, and the Divi1le Poems(PI'· 1-1( 1 ). Index of titles (pp. 193- (4); index of first lines (pp. 195- 9 ).I I. . Selected Poems [and] Death's Duell. celta, introduzionee com mento di Giorgio Melchiori. (Biblioteca italiana di tcstiinglesi, 2.) Terza edizione riveduta e aggiornata. Bari: Adriatica Editricc.283P .Biographical sketch (pp. 11- 2 ), survey of historical background (pp.1]-39 ) and of the literary background (pp. 39-47). and a critical introductionto Donn e's poetry and its influence (pp. 47-65). Stresses, in particular,Donne's presenta tion of interior conflict in highly dramatic con­I Is. hi u.es of idiomatic and colloquial language, his metrical originality