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

John Donn eSees the An niversaries as "examples of deliberative-epideicti c rhetoric,"as "poems of process rather than fixity, of argu mentation rath er than exposition,"and suggests that "the rhetorical treatment of evil is a key to theunderstandin g of the sequel poems" (p. 407). Argues that to understandthe poems fully on e "must take into account thei r full rhetorical nature,including their chief cause of lament, their restricted au dience, and theirnuanced lrarrnoniza tion and mutuality as rhetorical argum ent based 011the meditative tradition " (p. ..p 1). Poin ts nu t that "as cpideictic rhetoric,the An n i \'er.~a rie s praise the he roine and wha t she represents. and disp raiseworldli ness; as del iberative rhetoric, the poetic dipt ych s persuade the newworld to becom e virtuou s like and through the heroine" Ipp. 4 11-12).Concludes, therefore, that the poe ms possess "an ultimately indissol uableun ion ofepidcictic ami deliberative rhetoric" (p. 4 12).~ 117. MARTZ, LOUIS L. The Wit of Love: Donne, Carew, C rashaw,M arvell. (University of Notre Dame Ward· Phillips Lectures in EnglishLanguage and Literature, vol. 3.) Notre 1),IIll C, lnd.. and london:University of Notre Dame Press. xv, 216p .Series of four lectures (revised and expanded ) that were first given at theUniversity of Notre Dame in March 1968. Chapter I , "John Donne; Love'sPhilosoph y" (pp. 19-58), presents a brief survey of Don ne's career; comments on various portraits of him tha t have survived by \vay of illustratinghis adoption of various dramatic po s c..~ in his poet ry, "his way of con stantlycreating fictional roles out of aspects of his persona lity" (p. 26); and examines h is ph ilosophy of love as revealcd prima rily in the Songs and 50­nets. Argue s that the basic the me of all Donne's love poetr y is "the problemof the place of human love in a physical world dom inated by changean d dea th" (p. 35). Attempts to show how Donn e's "questing m ind revealsan d controls the contraries tha t meet within his being" (p. ; 8) by commentingon his love Ix>cms, especially "Aire and Angels," "Lo ves growth,""T he Funeral]," " The Relique," "The Anniversaric,' "A Valediction; forbiddingmourning," ''111e Extasic," "Lovers infinitencssc," "A Lecture uponthe Shadow" and "On Himsclfc." Mentions Donne throughout- the remainingth ree cha pters, primarily through comparisons and con trasts ofhis poetry with th at of Carew Crashaw and Marvell. Points out th e influenceof Donne, espec ially on Carew an d Marvell , and presents an analysisofCarew's elegy on Denne (pp. 97-100 ).,~ 118. l\I ARTl , LO UIS L., ed. The A nchor A nt/wlag)' of Seven teenth ­Century Verse, vol. I . Edited with an int rodu ction and notes byLouis L. Mart z. (Anchor Seventeen th-Century Series, ACO-13a,)C arden C ity, N .'( ; Doubleda y and Co. xliii, ; 25p.Reprinted as English Sevent eenth-Century Verse, vol. 1 (New 'rork:Norton , 1973).Parts of the introduct ion were originally pu blished in Mauer Poems ofthe English La nguage, edited by Oscar Willi ams (New York: Triden t Press,