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

Joll11 Donne~ 56. THU1\1Il00, E DWIN . "Donne's 'The Bracelet (Elegie Xl),' I 13-114."Expl '2 7= Item 14.Shows how in the last four line. of 'T he Bracelet" Donne wittily playswith the medically accepted notion that gold was a cordial or restorative.Iotes that Donne asks the finder of the bracelet to return it since, goldbeing restorative, the gold bracelet should be re tored to it. rightful owner.If the finder will not return the bracelet, then Donne hopes that the goldwill, metaphorically speaking, be in the fi nder's heart and thus restore himto moral health .~ 57. TRAGI , PHIUP. "The Supposed New Rhetoric of Donn e's Songsand Sands." Discourse 11: 98 - 1° 7.Argues that Donne did not reject rhetorical ornamentation in his poetrybut rather assimilated completely the existing rhetorical tradition to hisown purposes. Claims that the truly revolutionary quality of Donne's poetry"is due not so much to his having discarded the chain s of Elizabethanconvention, but rather to his having employed the links with such colloquial,dramati c, and even comic freshness, that the chains became notbinding, but both useful and decorative- fulfill ing the highest demandsof the poetry of any age" (p. 10;).~~ 58. WALCUTT, C IIAI~LES C IfILD, AND J. !'.,DWIN WHITESELL, eds,"Donne," in The Explicator Cyclopedia , vol. 2 : Traditional Poetry:Medieval to Late Victorian , pp. 96-1'26. Ch icago: Quadrangle Books.Lists forty-three items that appeared between 1943 and 196 '2 in TheExplicator, all of which arc fully annotated in John R. Roberts, John Donne:An Anl10tated Bibliograph y o{Modem Criticism, 1912-1 967 (entry 595).~~ 59. W EBBEn, JOA . The Eloquent "I": Style and Self in Seventeenth­Century Prose. Madison, Milwaukee, London; The University ofWisconsin Press. xii, '298p ."Donne and Bunyan: The Style of 1\\'0 Faiths" (pp, 15-52) reprintedin Stanley E. Fish, ed., Seventeenth-Century Prose: I lodem Essays inCriticism (entry 308).Discusses the phenomenon of seventeenth-century literary selfconsciousness,which includ es "consciousness of self as subject, in all therichn ess of the self as product and maker of his age; consciousness of selfas stylc and thereby as a way of linking , ubject with object; consciousne sof self in the eyes of the reader, or object, which mean s either oppositionto or union with that reader" (p. 4). In "Donne and Bunyan; T he Style ofTwo •aiths' (pp. 15-52) compares and contrasts Donne's Devotions uponEmergent Occasions and Bunyan 's G race Abounding to show that the former'sprose is "analytical, psychological, subjective, meditative, private,self-centered, and literary" while the latter's is "reportorial, straightforward,apparently objective, taking place in public, and inviting the readerto see him as an instrument to use rather than an object of contemplation"