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Donne's Anniversaries and the Poetry of Praise - The Creation of a Symbolic Mode (Paperback)
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Donne's Anniversaries and the Poetry of Praise - The Creation of a Symbolic Mode (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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In his occasional poetry, and especially in his two elegaic
Anniversary poems, Donne created a special symbolic mode in
seventeenth-century poetry of praise and compliment. Barbara Kiefer
Lewalski's reading of the Anniversary poems recognizes them as
complex mixed-genre works which weld together formal, thematic, and
structural elements from the occasional poem of praise, the funeral
elegy, the funeral sermon, the hymn, the anatomy, and the
Protestant meditation. Focusing especially on theme and structure,
her reading demonstrates the coherent symbolic method and meaning
of these poems and also their careful logical articulation, both as
individual poems and as companion pieces. Essentially, the author
discovers their thorough and precise exploration, through the
poetic means of figure and symbol, of the nature of man and the
conditions of human life. In order to discuss the significant
contexts for and influences on the Anniversary poems, the author
has studied sixteenth- and seventeenth-century epideictic theory
and practice, Protestant meditation, Biblical hermencutics, and
funeral sermons. She is also concerned with the effect of the
poems, and of Donne's other writings of a similar kind, on
contemporary and subsequent developments in the poetry of praise,
especially that of Marvell and Dryden. This is a lucid and learned
book that provides a major context for the Anniversary poems and
gives new significance to the designation of Donne as a
Metaphysical poet. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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