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

A Bibliography o(Criticismthe development of Engli h poetry during the ixteenth century and commentson several of the ph ilosophical and religious changes that preparedthe way for the development of metaphysical poetry. By way of example,contrasts Donne's "Lover infinitenesse" with Shakespeare's onnet 40.Chapter 2 (pp. 41-4 ) briefly di Cll se the nature of metaph y ical wit andcontrasts it with Elizabethan wit. Chapter 3, "La poesia di John Donne"(pp. 49-79), pre ents a biographical sketch; an extended discussion of Thefirst Anniversary as a reflection of the philosophical conflict experiencedby Donn e as a result of the changing world view; and a critical commentaryon several major aspects of Donn e's lyrical poetry, especially its usesof paradox and irony; its often elaborate imagery; its uses of conce its andemblematic images; its variety of metrical and rhythmical effects; it intellectuality,wit, and economy; and its uses of Platonic and religious languagea a vehicle for ec ular love. Illu trates these and other aspect ofDonne's art and thought by commen ting on a number of poems in theSongs and Sonets, especially "Twicknarn garden," "The Relique," "T heCanonization," "Aire andl Angels," "A Valediction: forbidding mourning,"and " nocturnallupon S. Lucies day." Chapter 4 (pp. 81-105) deal withHerbert; Chapter; (pp. 107-23) with Crashaw and the baroque; Chapter6 (pp. 125-40) with Hen ry aughan. Chapter 7 (pp. 141-63) discussesthe evolution of wit. e pccially in Cowley and Marvell, and comments onthe decline of the rnctaphy ical tradition . Appendix (pp. 164- 67) reproducesselections (in •nglish) from Dryden, Dr. John son, and T. S. Eliot.~~ 16. GRAHAM, DE! MO D. Introduction to Poetry. London: Oxfordniversity Press. vi" 16 p.~xp licates "Batter my heart" primarily by pointing out and diagrammingthe complex interplay between its formal clemen ts and it. enseunit (pp. 63- 66). Also comments briefly on the paradoxes and arnbiguitiein lines 13-14 of the poem (pp. 29- 30, 38).~~ 17. GRAZIANI, R EI E. "John Donne' 'The Extasie' and Ec tas ': ' RESn.s. 19: 121-36.Points out resemblances between the nature of ecstasy in "The Extasie"and that in Antoine Heroet's La Parfaict Amye (1542) and in JacquesColtorry's French translation and continuation of Book XI of the Amadisde Gaula series (1554) to show that the ecstasy in Donn e's poem "conformsto a ecular usage, and does not call for a close application of mysticaldoctrines involving a 'death of ecstasy' or 'a mystical sharing of somepart of thc Divine Beauty and Wisdom' to explain the poem" (p. 124).haws how Donne both adheres to "a specialized usage of 'ecstasy' thatdenoted a strictly amatory set of quite definite characteristics" (p. 123) andhow he ignificantly departs from the convention in several crucial ways.Argues that such a compar ison leads to a better understanding of a numberof cruxes in "The •xtasie,' especially the use of the hypothetical by-