John Donne in the Nineteenth Century

Description

In 1906, having been assigned Izaak Walton's Life of Donne to read for his English class, a Harvard freshman heard a lecture on the long disparaged "metaphysical" poets. Years later, when an appreciation of these poets was considered a consummate mark of a modernist sensibility, T. S. Eliot was routinely credited with having 'discovered' Donne himself.
John Donne in the Nineteenth Century tracks the myriad ways in which "Donne" was lodged in literary culture in the Romantic and Victorian periods. The early chapters document a first revival of interest when Walton's Life was said to be "in the hands of every reader"; they explore what Wordsworth and Coleridge contributed to the conditions for the 1839 publication of the only edition ever called The Works, which reprinted the sermons of "Dr Donne". Later chapters trace a second revival, when admirers of the biography, turning to the prose letters and the poems to supplement Walton, discovered that his hero's writings entail the sorts of controversial issues that are raised by Browning, by the 'fleshly school' of poets, and by self-consciously "decadent" writers of the fin de siecle.
The final chapters treat the spread of the academic study of Donne from Harvard, where already in the 1880s he was the anchor of the seventeenth-century course, to other institutions and beyond the academy, showing that Donne's status as a writer eclipsed his importance as the subject of Walton's narrative, which Leslie Stephen facetiously called "the masterpiece of English biography".

Disclaimer:
Contents of this page are indexed from the Internet. All actions are under your responsability. Email us to report illegal contents or external links and we'll remove them immediately.

Please check the description for download links if any or do a search to find alternative books.

Can't Download?
Please search mirrors if you can't find download links for "John Donne in the Nineteenth Century" in "Description" and someone else may update the links. Check the comments when back to find any updates.

Search Mirrors
Maybe some mirror pages will be helpful, search this book at top of this page or click here to find more info.

1. Ebooks list page : 3318
2. Dayton Haskin - John Donne in the Nineteenth Century
3. The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel: Scott, Bronte, Eliot, Wilde (Nineteenth Century)
4. Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic (The Nineteenth Century Series)
5. The Performing Century: Nineteenth-Century Theatre's History by Tracy C. Davis, Peter Holland
6. Physics in the Nineteenth Century
7. Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography
8. French Art Songs of the Nineteenth-Century
9. Religion in Nineteenth Century America
10. Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought
11. A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe
12. Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography
13. Episcopalianism in Nineteenth-Century Scotland
14. Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought
15. New Men in Trollope's Novels (The Nineteenth Century Series)
16. History of geology and paleontology to the end of the nineteenth century