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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The stars are for Donne, not particularly for this edition. But if you just like reading the poems, the edition does not really matter. ( ) I read eleven poems, plus the 16 sonnet sequence "Holy Sonnets" for my bookclub. I thought "To His Mistress" was quite sensual. Could you imagine having all of that stuff to take off—girdle, breastplate, busk (corset), gown, coronet, shoes. He says “unpin” and “Unlace yourself.” I’m so glad I don’t have to go through all that to get undressed each night. In "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" I really liked the analogy of the compass for a married couple. John Donne wrote this to his wife as he was leaving for Europe. They were like a compass—she was the fixed foot. Since they were one flesh, while he was away, their soul would expand. Like a compass she would remain in place but lean towards him while he was away. Then she would straighten as he returned. I found the Holy Sonnets quite interesting. What a difference from his earlier works, eh? Of course, Death Be Not Proud is a triumphant poem. I've always loved it. Death should not be proud because some day it's going to die. I've always had that comfort that at the moment of death the victory is won. Sometimes we have the idea that when someone loses their battle with cancer or other illness, they've lost. But at just the moment they've lost the battle, they've won the war through faith in Christ. The poem called "Spit in my face you Jews" is interesting. My sins, which pass the Jews' impiety: They killed once an inglorious man, but I Crucify him daily, being now glorified. At first I was wondering where he was going with this--it started out sounding like he was going to bash the Jews, but ended up with him convicting himself. Good one. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"This new Norton Critical Edition presents a comprehensive collection of Donne's poetry. The texts are divided into sections: "Satires," "Elegies," "Verse Letters to Several Personages," "Songs and Sonnets," and "Divine Poems." They have been scrupulously edited and are from the Westmoreland manuscript where possible - collated against the best exemplars from the most important families of Donne manuscripts: the Cambridge Balam, the Dublin Trinity, the O'Flahertie - and compared with all seven of the seventeenth-century printed editions of the poems as well as with the major twentieth-century editions. Annotations to the texts of the poems define uncommon terms and locate historical references." ""Criticism" is divided into four sections. "Donne and Metaphysical Poetry" includes seventeenth-century views on Donne and his style by Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, Izaak Walton, John Dryden, Samuel Johnson, Dennis Flynn, and John Carey. "Satires, Elegies, and Verse Letters" offers insights into Donne's frequently overlooked early poems and their social and literary backgrounds, Collected here are selections by Arthur F. Marotti, M. Thomas Hester, Alan Armstrong, Achsah Guibbory, Margaret Maurer, Heather Dubrow, and Gary A. Stringer. Pieces on Donne the love poet are included in "Songs and Sonnets," by Donald L. Guss, Patrick Cruttwell, John A. Clair, M. Thomas Hester, Theresa M. DiPasquale, and Camille Wells Slights. "Holy Sonnets/Divine Poems" includes essays that discuss Donne's struggles as a Christian, by R.V. Young, Louis L. Martz, David M. Sullivan, and Donald R. Dickson. A Chronology, Selected Bibliography, Index of Titles, and Index of First Lines are also included."--Jacket. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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