Throughout his life, John Donne was well acquainted with the
consequences of desire. He wanted a courtly career badly enough to
renounce the Catholicism of his childhood. Later, he wanted a woman
badly enough to gamble that career for her sake; he lost, but found
a new calling in the Anglican Church. There he pursued
philosophical and theological questions with an intensity to match
his former social ambitions, and was not above addressing God
Himself in tones of "immoderate desire." Death became his ultimate
object of passionate attention; and ever since that final
consummation, critics have argued over the nature and import of
Donne's desires, while simultaneously (if not always
self-consciously) revealing a great deal about their own.
Saunders explores this dialectic of desire, re-evaluating both
Donne's poetry and the complex responses it has inspired, from his
earliest readers to his recent professional critics. In the
process, Saunders considers an extraordinary range of topics,
including the technology of the book, prosodic theory, the problem
of misogyny, the history of sexuality, and even the purpose of
criticism itself; remarkably, he does so while keeping Donne's
poetry in focus at all times.
Witty, erudite, theoretically engaged, but intensely readable,
this study takes into account recent developments in the fields of
historicism, feminism, queer theory, and postmodern psychoanalysis,
while offering dazzling close readings of many of Donne's most
famous poems.
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