John Donne : comprehensive research and study guide / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
A brief profile of the poet is accompanied by excerpts from critical essays about twelve of his major poems.
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| Series: | Bloom's major poets.
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Table of Contents:
- Biography of John Donne
- General introduction to Songs and Sonnets
- Thematic analysis of "The good morrow"
- Thematic analysis of "The sunne rising"
- Thematic analysis of "Song"
- Critical views on "The good morrow," "Song," and "The sunne rising": Rodney Edgecomb on "The sunne rising" and King Lear
- Alfred W. Satterthwaite on the seven sleepers
- Misako Himuro on the seven sleepers
- D.C. Allen on the history of the mandrake root
- James S. Baumlin on the sun's paradoxical nature
- Clay Hunt on "The sunne rising" and "The canonization"
- John Carey on Donne's response to court life in "The sunne rising"
- Donald L. Guss on the Renaissance theory of love
- Thematic analysis of "Love's alchymie"
- Thematic analysis of "The anniversarie"
- Thematic analysis of "The ecstasie"
- Critical views on "Love's alchymie," "The anniversarie," and "The ecstasie"
- N.J.C. Andreasen on love's grim nature in "Love's alchymie"
- Clay Hunt on the debate between body and soul
- Arthur F. Marotti on the rejection of courtly love in "Love's alchymie"
- N.J.C. Andreasen on ideal love in "The anniversarie"
- Arthur F. Marotti on comic elements in "The anniversarie"
- John Carey on the landscape of "The anniversarie"
- Dwight Cathcart on the status of truth in "The extasie" [sic]
- James S. Baumlin on the union of body and soul
- Helen B. Brooks on exemplary love
- Thematic analysis of "A valediction forbidding mourning"
- Thematic analysis of "The canonization"
- Thematic analysis of "A hymn to God the Father"
- Critical views on "A valediction forbidding mourning," "The canonization," and "A hymn to God the Father": Jay Dean Divine on the symbolic importance of the compass
- A.B. Chambers on glorified bodies and the "Valediction"
- John Freccero on the circle of love
- Allen Tate on movement in the "Valediction"
- Maurine Sabine on the autobiographical aspects of "The canonization"
- Dayton Haskin on biographical interpretation
- Cleanth Brooks on Donne's paradoxes
- Joseph E. Duncan on Donne's concept of resurrection
- David J. Leigh, S.J., on Donne['s relationship with his wife
- Overview of the holy sonnets
- Thematic analysis of "Death be not proud"
- Thematic analysis of "Batter my heart"
- Critical views on "Death be no proud" and "Batter my heart": Wilbur Sanders on Donne's attempt to familiarize mystery
- Frederic B. Tromly on self-destruction in "death be not proud"
- Paul M. Oliver on Calvinist doctrines in "Batter my heart"
- William Kerrigan on "Batter my heart."