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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne

8 reviews
John Donne

Modern Library, 1994

Donne, the greater poet
As the years go by, and my range of knowledge grows, I find myself being drawn back again and again to John Donne. Unlike one of the previous reviewers, I do share his religion and even practice a more modern version of his denomination. Still there is something more there. As far as comparing Donne with Eliot, although I think Eliot was a great poet, there is more depth of feeling in Donne's ...

CCEL Classics CD: works by Saint Augustine, John Calvin, John Donne, Julian of Norwich, Brother Lawrence, ...

1 review
Dr. W. Harry Plantinga, Christian Classics Ethereal Library, ...

Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2006

Outstanding Christian Classics on CD
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library "Classics" CD is an outstanding library of 118 Christian classic books. This digital library contains 3 Bible translations and commentaries from authors such as Calvin, Henry, Luther, Spurgeon, and Wesley, and others. It also includes classic works by St. Augustine, St. Aquinas, Bounds, Bunyan, Fox, McDonald, Murray, Whitefield, etc. Early church creeds and ...

John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility

1 review
Dennis Flynn

Indiana University Press, 1995

Re-assessing John Donne
I was researching the life and times of John Donne for a new play "Reinvention" (www.reinvention.co.uk) and wasn't really getting very far. I had previously found Donne to be distant and dislikeable, a careerist who was allegedly willing to betray his faith (Catholicism) despite hailing from an impressive lineage. Somehow, it didn't add up. His poems still remained inaccessible, his life, ...

Donne: Selected Poetry (Poetry Library, Penguin)

2 reviews
John Donne, John Hayward, 1986

A handy and fine selection, but lacks annotations.
JOHN DONNE : A Selection of His Poetry. Edited by John Hayward. 182 pp. New York : Viking Press, 1986 (Reissue). ISBN 0140585184 (pbk.) John Hayward is a noted and respected scholar who has here given us an excellent selection of much of Donne's finest poetry. The book includes a generous selection from Donne's 'Songs and Sonets,' along with representative 'Elegies,' 'Epithalamions,' ...

Watch For The Light: Readings For Advent And Christmas

15 reviews
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John Donne, ...

Orbis Books, 2004

Company on the Journey
Like a kid counting down the days until Christmas, I took a spiritual journey by reading the days until Christmas. My guide, Watch for the light. Cheaper than a real journey...no stops for gas , no waiting in line. Pop open the book's cover and begin to read. Some funny stories, some poetry, some known authors and some not so well known, all leading the way to Christmas. When Christmas ...

Handmaid to Divinity: Natural Philosophy, Poetry, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England (Series for ...

1 review
Desiree Hellegers

University of Oklahoma Press, 2000

Wonderful examination of complex subject
Well written study of Donne and related topics for feminist studies. An excellent read.

The complete English poems [of] John Donne

1 review
John Donne

St. Martin's Press, 1974

The greatness of Donne
The greatness of Donne is not simply in his violent yoking together of diverse realities in order to form complex new metaphorical wholes, but also in the deep passion and feeling of his confrontation with life's fundamental realities, Love and Death. Donne reasons with a passion and intensity, makes the very motion of mind one of deepest heart in a sublime, often mysterious and troubling ...

Complete English Poems

9 reviews
John Donne

Orion Publishing Group, Ltd., 1994

To yoke unlike things together for most passionate poetry
Songs and Sonnets, Epigrams, Elegies, Satyres, Letters, The Anniversaries, Divine Poems. These are some of the categories of this collection of Donne's complete works. The volume also has a short life of Donne, and an overall introduction to his poetry. Donne, is generally considered the greatest of the Metaphysical poets. His two great subjects are Love and Death, and his passionate intellect ...

The Love Poems of John Donne

2 reviews
John Donne, Charles Fowkes

Pan Macmillan, 1983

Excellent combination of writer and voice.
The voice of Richard Burton reciting John Donne is a magical combination. Burton has the flair that captures the feeling and intensity of this poet. Donne, known for his writing ability, his technique is known as conciet, can be dense to read. Burton opens up the words and the meanings with his rich voice and perfect inflection. Whether you are timid about poetry or love John Donne, this is ...

The poetry of John Donne and the metaphysical poets, (Monarch notes and study guides)

3 reviews
Joseph E Grennen

distributed by Monarch Press, 1965

He Had Studied And Made Many Friends
"JOHN DONNE EARLY LIFE: John Donne was born in 1572, of well-to-do Roman Catholic parents. His early training was received under the Jesuits, from whom he undoubtedly learned much of the subtle scholastic logic which enhances (or infects) his poetry, but from who he must also have received instruction in the devotional attitudes which inform so much of his religious verse. He had roots going ...

Metaphysical Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)

1 review
John Donne, Andrew Marvell, ...

Dover Publications, 2002

The bare text itself
Dover editions provide the basic poetic texts without serious and extended commentary. In a sense there is an advantage in this as it encourages the reader to engage the text, and seek understanding through reading and rereading. But there is also a great disadvantage especially when it comes to complicated poetry like that of the Metaphysicals whose complex linking of diverse images , whose ...

John Donne and the Seventeenth-Century Metaphysical Poets (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

1 review

Chelsea House Publications, 1986

A very good collection of poetry
This collection of John Donne's work displays his wide range of knowledge, wit, emotion and cynicism. All tempered well with his clever understanding and delivery of his pastorals.

Literature and Sacrament : The Sacred and the Secular in John Donne (Medieval and Renaissance Literary ...

1 review
Theresa M. DiPasquale

Duquesne University Press, 1999

The Literary and Textual Search for Real Presence
Fruit of over ten years of close readings of John Donne's poetry, this book presents the non-casual reader with a flowing series of essays by Theresa DiPasquale on the poets verbal research for Real Presence. Followed by a clarifying appendix on the doctrine of the Eucharistic Sacrifice, this book uses as a gauge of the poet's intentions both the contemporary doctrinal disputes on the nature ...

The Love Poems of Robert Herrick and John Donne

1 review, 1948

Thank god for real poetry!
I first found this book while sifting through the stacks at my local library, where I also worked, seeing the name of John Donne I thought I might find a poem I hadn't read before. To my pleasant suprise the beginning of the book was a selection of Robert Herrick's poetry. I read the Herrick selections and instantly felt a connection with the witt and depth of this unheard of genius. I checked ...

One Equall Light: An Anthology of the Writings of John Donne

1 review
Rowan Williams

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004

A bright, shining light...
John Donne, in addition to being one of the leading lights in Anglican church history as well as the art of use of the English language, was once Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London - a distinction he shares with John Moses, the editor of this great volume of his work. The volume begins on an auspicious note, with a Foreword by the current Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who likens ...

John Donne: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism, 1979-1995 (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies)

1 review
John R. Roberts

Duquesne University Press, 2004

Simply indispensable!
This is the third in Roberts' superb series of Donne bibliographies -- a series which has set the gold standard for what such books should be like. No one hoping to do serious work on Donne can do without these books, and every college library worth its salt should own them.

John Donne's Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels: With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations

1 review
John Donne

University of California Press, 1963

An Unforgettable Spiritual Classic!
John Donne's poetic words pierce the heart and ignite the imagination. He speaks food for the soul, not just the heart. I have read and re-read his books for many years and cannot tell how deeply they have moved me and inspired me to be a better Christian. He was a profound writer, almost mystical and yet so very down to earth. A beautiful book that should not be missed by anyone interested ...

Metaphysical lyrics & poems of the seventeenth century, Donne to Butler;

1 review
Herbert John Clifford Grierson

The Clarendon press, 1921

A landmark in literary history
Grierson 's 1912 essay on the Metaphysicals moved them from being an eccentricity to the center of the Literary Tradition. He saw in their use of rough direct speech, the linking together of images from diverse realms which is the metaphysical conceit, a way of making Poetry which was especially deep, complex and passionate. His understanding of the importance of the Metaphysicals was taken up by ...

John Donne's Religious Imagination: Essays in Honor of John T. Shawcross

1 review

Uca Press, 1995

Undoing a dichotomized Donne
Prof. Frontain and the other illustrious editors of this book, have taken great heed of presenting us with a serious scholarly work, in which the traditionally opposed figures of the women-visiting Jack Donne and the enthusiastic preacher 'Dr John Donne' merge, the same way in which sacred and profane merge in his poems and prose. The book is highly recommended for those looking for a source ...

No Man Is an Island

1 review
John Donne

Villard, 1970

It tolls for thee
Donne was a writer of extraordinary intellectual grasp and tremendous creative power. His metaphysical poetry linked together images from the most diverse realms and created a new form of metaphoric seeing. Donne combined a true feel for the material , sensual realities with a deep ideational adventurism. His passionate religious feeling also seemed to bring at its best a new level of insight and ...

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