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

lohli Donne10) comments on Denne's reputation both in his own time and especiallysince \' 'orld War I and argues that in his love poems and in his sacredverse ~''-l n ne "si eleva 'II di sopra del suo tempo e trova accent! valid; perogni gcn craaione ' (p, q ). Chapter 2 (PI'. 11-36) presents a bio graphicalsketch, based heavily Ull Walton's account. Chapter 3 (PP· 37-4, ) givesall overall view of Donne's works and divides them into three major peri­(xis-those written before his marriage in 1601, those written from 16Ci!until his ordination in 161 5, and those written from di!, until his deathill 1631- and comments 0 11 the posthumous publication of most of hiswork. Chapter 4 (PI'. 46- 84) surveys Donne's secular verse-the epigrams,the "Epithalamion made at Lincolncs lnne," the satires and elegies,tile verse letters, and the Songs and Soners-c-and concludes thatDonne, more than any other poet, "hOI saputo celebrate l'amorc comemiracolo, come sommc bene, cd cspri mere l'estasi dcll'unione totalc conlu persona amata" (p. 84\. Chapter ; (pp. 8;-lCJ3) presents critical analvscsof twenty-two poems from the Songs and Sonets. Chapter 6 (pp. lCJ-+­216) offers a general introduction to the Divine Poems as well as to thetwo Allniwrsaries. Chapter 7 (pp. Z17-48) presents critical analyses oflenof the Hofy Sonnets as wel l as critical commentary on "A Ilymne to Christ.ill the Authors last going into Ccnuany" "Hymuc to God IllyC(xI, in mysicknessc." and t'A Hymnc to God the Father.".~ 122. fl. IILGATE, W[t:su:yl. " l' he Date of Donne's Marriage: r\ Reply"E,\ n : 66-67'Reply to Edwa rd Lc Comic (entry 28). Disagrees with Lc Comic (andLady Mary Clive) that Don ne married Ann More in JanU,II'}' 1602 ratherthan in December 160 1. Points out that the document upon which LeCom tc based his argument "docs not say that the mamagc took place inJanuary dJO I!02. but that in that month Denne and Ann were free of unylither marital obligations and had been properly married " (I'. 66). ,'\ noteby I ~ L. (Pierre Lcgcuis ?) following the article comments on the debateami calls for a closure.•~ 123. ~h:-';ER . E ARL. The l\ fetaph)'Sicaf Mode from Donne to COII" e·,..Princeton: Princeton University Press. xix. 291P.Pages 11 8- 58 reprinted in Seventeenth Century English Poetry: ,\ 'adernEssa ys in Criticism, edited by William R. Keast (entry 328l, pp. 45­76.Pages C)C)-117 reprinted in The Aletaphysicaf Poets:A Selection of CriticalEssays, edited by Gerald Hammond (entry 648), pp. 197- 214.The purpose of this study is "10 discriminate poe tic features tha t areparticularly important to the Metaphysical style and differences possiblewithin the style: in other words, what is lasting and what changes, what i~general to the style and what is peculiar 10 individual writers" (p. xi).Argues ( I) that metaphysical poetry is "private in mode, that it treats timeand place in ways describable in terms of the 'dramatic: the 'narrative: