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John Donne (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
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John Donne (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
Series: Critical Issues
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John Donne is now a strong candidate for the most popular
Renaissance writer after Shakespeare. What lies behind this
longstanding and increasing popularity? Paying tribute to the
living vitality of Donne's literary voice, and the kaleidoscope of
social detail embedded in his writings, Richard Sugg offers a
vibrant engagement with the author's work, life and times. He
argues that Donne's fiercely original mind produced remarkable and
challenging new images of selfhood, love, friendship, and of a
natural world marked by the unstable movement from religion to
early science. As this suggests, much of Donne's continuing appeal
derives from his ability to look forward to recognisably modern
attitudes. At the same time, though, to fully appreciate Donne's
life and writing it is necessary to comprehend the strangeness of
his social and intellectual world: the peculiar mixture of
splendour, violence and suffering which spilled across his path in
the streets, theatres and churches of seventeenth-century London,
and the attitudes and ideologies expressed within them. Richard
Sugg carefully places Donne's poetry and prose in their religious
and cultural context, thereby helping the reader to gain a fuller
and subtler understanding of his work. He also provides a detailed
overview of the current state of critical and theoretical debate.
Approachable and lucid, this is a valuable introduction to one of
the most enduring and widely-studied Renaissance authors. It is
essential reading for anyone who wishes to engage with the
distinctive questions surrounding both John Donne's writings and
the Renaissance world in general.
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