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The Penguin
^ Poetry Library
John Donne is very much a poet for
Although his reputation has suffered periodic eclipses, it has increased steadily since the publication in 1633 of POEMS BY J. D. WITH ELEGIES ON THE A UTHOR 'S DEA TH. This
century, however, has been remarkable for the broadening and deepening of interest in his work.
A poet of love and friendship, Donne also
employed dialectic, monologue and psychological analysis to wrestle with his religious, philosophic and personal doubts and with 'the wearisome condition of humanity' in a world that appeared as puzzling and riven as purs does today.
From his early Songs and Sonets, Elegies, Ephithalamions and Satyres to Verse Letters, Anniversaries, Epicedes, Obsequies and Divine Poems, Donne's extraordinary, rich, complex
and demanding poetry expresses, as John Hayward comments in his introduction, 'for us our hopes and fears of an analogous
our time.
human condition'.
The cover shows a portrait of John Donne in the...
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Fülszöveg
The Penguin
^ Poetry Library
John Donne is very much a poet for
Although his reputation has suffered periodic eclipses, it has increased steadily since the publication in 1633 of POEMS BY J. D. WITH ELEGIES ON THE A UTHOR 'S DEA TH. This
century, however, has been remarkable for the broadening and deepening of interest in his work.
A poet of love and friendship, Donne also
employed dialectic, monologue and psychological analysis to wrestle with his religious, philosophic and personal doubts and with 'the wearisome condition of humanity' in a world that appeared as puzzling and riven as purs does today.
From his early Songs and Sonets, Elegies, Ephithalamions and Satyres to Verse Letters, Anniversaries, Epicedes, Obsequies and Divine Poems, Donne's extraordinary, rich, complex
and demanding poetry expresses, as John Hayward comments in his introduction, 'for us our hopes and fears of an analogous
our time.
human condition'.
The cover shows a portrait of John Donne in the style of Isaac Oliver, in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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