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The Poems of John Donne - Volume 2
John Donne
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D makes an effort to arrange the poems following the Elegies in groups. The Funeral Elegies come first, and two blank pages are headed An Elegye on Prince Henry. The letters are then brought together, and are followed by the religious poems dispersed in H49. The lyrical poems follow [pg lxxxvi] piece by piece as in H49, and the whole closes with the two epithalamia and the Obsequies to the Ld. Harrington.
The order in Lec resembles that of H49 more closely than that of D. The mixed letters, funeral elegies, and religious poems follow the Elegies as in H49, but Lec adds to them the two letters (Lady Carey and The Countess of Salisbury) and the Letanie which in H49 are dispersed through the lyrical pieces. Lec does no. . . Read More
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Donne is one of the most uncompromising and most extraordinary of poets. There are some ways in which I admire him more than Shakespeare, and even if that seems like hyperbole, his body of work is a stunning counterpart to that of the Bard. They are both gifted with an unfathomable range of tone and
Donne stressed love's dualism of body and soul, flesh and spirit, its subtle passions, its cynical bitterness. In the best poems, intellect and passion intensify each other by startling and ingenious juxtaposition.
I don't know if it still is, but 10 years ago it was very en vogue to love John Donne. For a lot of people, he was the perfect marriage of modern sensibilities and non-shitty poetry, a combination that is not readily found. Finally, they thought, a Dead White Male I can enjoy while still maintaining
John Donne is one of my favorite poets. This collection is excellent. His poems are spiritual and his poems are sensual. I love his mindset and the time in which he lived. He may have been a cleric, but I'm not being preached at. I can open this book and just enjoy.
John Donne undoubtedly belongs to another time. His English is not our contemporary English, and therefore, at times, he is a bit hard to read. That being said, he is an absolute master at putting words together. Some of his phrasing is funny, much is romantic, and most is extraordinarily pious. A c
John Donne is, with apologies to my unintentional namesake, my absolute favorite poet. He covers all the big three topics that great poetry should - Love, Death, and God - and, more often than not, he's covering all three at the same time in the span of 14 short, beautiful little lines of epic propo