"I haue often such a sickly inclination"
R. G. Siemens suggests that the tract should be read "as a detached . . . examination of the moral implications of an action," rather than a reflection of Donne's state of mind.
"The strangest pageant, fashion'd like a
William F. Blissett suggests that a Jonson reference to a "Dr. Done . . . encourages a consideration of the parallel literary lives of Jonson and Donne."
"Witness this Booke, (thy Emblem)": Don
Diana Treviño Benet argues that the sonnets have been widely studied in terms of the poet's theology, but "their recourse to biography" deserves critical attention.
Book Review
Gary Kuchar reviews Ronald Corthell's Ideology and Desire in Renaissance Poetry: The Subject of Donne.
Book Review
Claude J. Summers reviews The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne (vol. 6): The Anniversaries and The Epicedes and Obsequies. Gen. Ed. Gary A. Stringer.
Book Review
Elizabeth Hodgson reviews The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 8: The Epigrams, Epithalamions, Epitaphs, Inscriptions, and Miscellaneous Poems. Gary A. Stringer, et al.
Book Review
Nathan P. Tinker reviews Barbara Estrin's Laura: Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell.
Book Reviews
Elizabeth Hodgson reviews two books: John Donne. Pseudo-Martyr. Ed. Anthony Raspa; John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility, by Dennis Flynn.
Britten and Donne: Holy Sonnets Set to Music
Bryan N. S. Gooch argues that the ordering of the Sonnets in Britten's Opus 35 reflects the composer's personal experience of visiting German concentration camps.
Cambridge History of English and American Literatu
Covers the period from Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton, which includes "Donne's Relation to Petrarch," "His Life," "Songs and Sonets," "Letters and Funerall Elegies," and "His Position and Influence."
Colon and Semi-Colon in Donne's Prose Letters
Suggests that "Donne's colon and semicolon usage reveals several Donnean principles of punctuation." By Emma L. Roth-Schwartz.
Donne, Herbert, and the Worm of Controversy
By Louis Martz. Ecclesiastical dispute in the British Church as reflected in the works of Donne and Herbert.
John Donne Journal
Studies in the Age of Donne. Tables of contents through 1998.
John Donne the Divine and Mundane
Analyzes Donne's poetry in terms of his change in lifestyles throughout his career. By Yoshiko Fujito.
John Donne's "Lamentations" and Ch
Ted-Larry Pebworth argues that Donne engaged the 1587 edition of Fetherstone's "Lamentations" to translate the text into English.
John Donne's Use of Space
"Donne's spatial imagination: its cosmographic assumptions, and its many contradictions," by Lisa Gorton.
Love Poetry of John Donne
An essay by Ian Mackean on the role of love in Donne's Songs and Sonnets.
New Pleasures Prove: Evidence of Dialectical Dispu
Margaret Downs-Gamble examines Donne's poems in terms of the manuscript culture of the times.
Paraphrase Used in a Review
Excerpt from the Eric Griffiths review of William Empson's posthumous Essays on Renaissance Literature.
Political and Social Criticism in "The Calme&
Student essay by John DeStefano.
Selected Papers
From the West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association. Book reviews and several articles on Donne and his works.
The Metaphysical Sonnets of John Donne and Mikolaj
Magdalena Kay suggests that "Both poets work out their ideas through paradox and syntactic play."
Trumpet Vibrations: Theological Reflections on Do
G. Richmond Bridge relates the octave of Holy Sonnet VII to "the substance of much millenarian thought and preaching."
W[illiam] S[hakespeare]'s "A Funeral El
Claude J. Summers argues that "A Funeral Elegy" shares an affinity with Donne's mourning poems, but "rejects those very qualities of expansive symbolism and abstraction that the later plays share with the Anniversaries."