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 training made death an obsession. Donne achieved renown in his early years by breaking from tradition to write poetry of exceptional ingenuity. The figure of death pervaded the subject matter, conceits, and descriptions with intellectualized and exaggerated glamor. Done achieved renown in his early middle age as a controversialist, writing on such subjects as martyrdom, suicide, and theological arguments. Due to financial reverses and continued illness, he contemplated suicide. Donne achieved renown in his later life by becoming the most famous contemporary Anglican minister. The various attitudes toward death pervaded his religious thoughts, as Donne recognized that death was soon to possess him.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Grantor

Baylor University.

Year dc:date.issued

1949

Author dc:creator

• Collmer, R. G., 1926-2018.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Courtney, Luther W. (Luther Weeks)

• Donne, John, 1572-1631.
• Death.

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en

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https://hdl.handle.net/2104/14220

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