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John Donne's interest in death.
John Donne lived in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In these years there was a morbid tendency toward brooding over death. Doone, more than any other individual, felt this tendency and emphasized it in his writings and his life. The added impression of heredity and early …
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Irony and the secular poems of John Donne
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The Modus Praedicandi of John Donne: A Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Sermons of John Donne With Regard Specifically to the Theory of Preachingwhich He Put Into Practice
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The use of sound patterns in some English poems of John Donne
LD2668 .T4 1954 J65
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An Analytical Study of The Holy Sonnets of John Donne by Benjamin Britten
… Britten used in setting The Holy Sonnets of John Donne. This study also shows the ways in which these techniques serve to bring out the full meaning of the text.
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Homiletic Theory and Practice in the Sermons of John Donne and Lancelot Andrewes
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The Intellectual and Imaginative Concept of the Angels in Certain Works of John Donne
… Andrews, among others. Among these writers John Donne stands in a most interesting position. He was a lyric poet of talent: vigorous, versatile, popular; he was also a deeply religious man, a student of theological thought and the greatest Anglican preacher of his day. The purpose of this …
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A Large Frame of the Iconography of Death in the Time of John Donne
… frame of the icongraphy of death in the tie of John Donne. My study must, by definistion, leave out the Ars Moriendi theme which is really a companion study. Furthermore, some very fine contributions of Donne to the representation of Death must be discarded as appertaining to Death’s properties …
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Affect before Spinoza: Reformed Faith, Affectus, and Experience in Jean Calvin, John Donne, John Milton and Baruch Spinoza
… human agency </p><p>and activity. Beginning with John Calvin and continuing through the work of John </p><p>Donne, John Milton, and Baruch Spinoza, Affect Before Spinoza posits affectus as a basis </p><p>of faith in an emergent Reformed tradition as well as a term that informs disparate …
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To ask "fit things fitly" : the prayers of John Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions.
John Donne's 'Devotions upon Emergent Occasions' is often read alongside the many devotionals that shaped religious life during the early part of the seventeenth century. One subset of this literature, however, has often been overlooked: the array of devotional manuals purporting to provide …
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The Metaphysical Drama: A Study of the Similarities Between the Poems of John Donne and Certain Jacobean Plays, Particularly Those of John Webster
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Inanimating Matter: The Aesthetics of Putrefaction in Early Modern English Literature, 1580-1660
… of Francis Bacon to the sermons and poetry of John Donne, manifest instead a paradoxical awareness of matter’s inorganic animacy—an ontological and aesthetic generativity immanent in matter’s very formlessness. Drawing on recent scholarship emphasising the profoundly embodied nature of early …
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How to remember thee?: problems of memorialization in english writing, 1558-1625
… written by George Whetstone, Thomas Churchyard, John Phillips, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Sidney after Sir Philip Sidney’s death in 1586. These poets support military intervention on the continent against Roman Catholic States by using figural interpretation to represent Sidney as a martyr. Chapter …
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Example and Rule in Donne
… twentieth-century critics have argued that John Donne appeals to memory instead of trying to teach the "perverse reason." These critics, citing an Augustinian influence, have emphasized Donne's role as a reminder--prompting his listeners to recall what the inner teacher (Christ) has revealed …
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For whom the bell tolls for flute (piccolo), soprano saxophone (alto saxophone), percussion, and piano
… inspired by "Meditation XVII”, a poem written by John Donne in 1624. It appears in Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Seuerall Steps in my Sicknes. The opening line is: "PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself …
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Love, Lust and Literature in the Late Sixteenth Century
… as practiced by Christopher Marlowe and John Donne. Then I will discuss Petrarch and the serious sonnet sequence tradition, the influence of which is evident in the sonnet sequences of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser. Next, since both the afore-mentioned love traditions are based …
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