John Donne’s reply to Marlowe, perhaps written to amuse fellow residents at the Inns of Court, where he was once Master of the Revels, also reads a bit like satire. “Come live with me, and be my love, ...
(A review of Hugh l'Anson Fausset's John Donne: A Study in Discord.) The eighteenth century, with its regard for symmetry and definition, preferred to keep biography and criticism separated; or, if ...
Why do we humans make and listen to poetry? “The world is charged with the grandeur of God” — everything in it is worthy of our attention. A poet fixes our gaze on some God-created being or experience ...
Though I prefer Keats myself, Katherine Rundell is of the opinion that John Donne was ‘the finest love poet in the English language’. He created the ‘most lavishly sexed poetry ever written in ...
The title of Katherine Rundell’s biography of the Renaissance poet and divine, John Donne, comes from his sermons, which few people read today. In a funeral sermon for Magdalen Herbert (the mother of ...
John Donne: The Reformed Soul by John Stubbs 536pp, Viking, £20 The picture of John Donne "in the pose of a melancholy lover", which was recently bought by the National Portrait Gallery, has once ...
Katherine Rundell’s engaging and playful biography of the metaphysical poet demands – and rewards – your attention “Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging.” Ben Jonson’s stern judgment on ...
Best known as an author of children’s books, Katherine Rundell is also a scholar of the Renaissance at All Souls, Oxford, and this biography of the poet and priest John Donne is grounded in research ...
In 1633, a bookseller based in a churchyard on Fleet Street issued a long-awaited collection of poetry. At that time, St Dunstan’s was a hub of literary and legal chat, and given his fascination with ...
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