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

[ohn DonneSince Donn e views the sermon as "no mcre discourse, not even a sacredpre pa ration for some ensiling sacramental encounter with the Holy Prescnce'but rath er as "a dynamic, corporate event invok ing preach er, congregationand the Holy Spirit" (p. 597), he constructs his sermons "toproduce crisis, to change men 's lives by bringing them into direct confrontationwith their God" (p. 613 ). Concludes that the primary appeal ofDonne's sermons is, therefore, not to the intellect but to the conscience.~ :14. MILLS, JERRY LEATH. "Donne " Bracelets of Bright Hair: An Analogue:'J &Q n.s, 15: 368 .' uggests a close analogue between Donne's image of the amatory tokenof a lock of hair in "T he Funeral!" and "T he Relique" and a similar imagein john Leland 's Asser/io inclylissimi AT/uri (1544), which was translatedby Richard Robinson in 1582 as A Learned and Truessertion of theoriginal, Life, Actes, and death of. . . Prince Artlltlre. otes that Leland ,following an account found in the works of Giraldi Cambrensis, describesthe exhumation of remains thought to be those of Arthur and Guinevereat Glastonbury in 1191 and notes that in the tomb a yellow lock of woman'shair was discovered.~ :15. lvIITCHELL, CHARLES. "Donne's 'The Extasic': Loves SublimeKnot." SEL 8: 91-101.Argues that in "The Extasie" Donne demon trates "not merely figurativel)/.but quite literally, that the union of man and woman in love createsthe fusion of male and female clements-soul and bodv-i-within man"(p. 93 ). Observes that in the love ecstasy, the soul, freed 'from its body, istransplanted in the richer soil of the beloved's soul, thereby gaining trengthand new knowledge about itself and its relationship to the body. otes thatwhen the soul returns to the body after the ecstasy, a fully human synthesisis c ffi~ cle d between body and soul.~ 36. [M OR AN], SISTER MARY CAROLINE. "The •xistential ist Attitudeof John Donne." XUS 7= 37-;0.Finds traces of existential thinking in Donnes early life and works. Readsthe poems as autobiographical statements and suggests that Donne's disappointmentor dissatisfaction with human love, his doubts about the relationshipbetween the body and soul, his sense of incompleteness andrestlessness, his personal views on man 's relation to God, and especiallyhis subjectivity and reliance on experience can be compared with modernexistent ial thought, especially with that of Jean-Paul Sartre. Suggests thateven in later life Donne retained many of his existential concepts butdiscarded those elements that would have brought him to a totally materialisticview of the world.~ : ~ 7 . MUIiJ...LER, JANEL M. "The Exegesis of Experience: Dean Donne'sDevotions UpOIl Emergent Occasions." IEGP 67= 1- 19.Argues that Donn e's highly metaphorical treatment of Scripture in the