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John Donne in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, New)
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John Donne in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, New)
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In 1906, having been assigned Izaak Walton's Life of Donne to read
for his English class, a Harvard freshman heard a lecture on the
long disparaged "metaphysical" poets. Years later, when an
appreciation of these poets was considered a consummate mark of a
modernist sensibility, T. S. Eliot was routinely credited with
having 'discovered' Donne himself.
John Donne in the Nineteenth Century tracks the myriad ways in
which "Donne" was lodged in literary culture in the Romantic and
Victorian periods. The early chapters document a first revival of
interest when Walton's Life was said to be "in the hands of every
reader"; they explore what Wordsworth and Coleridge contributed to
the conditions for the 1839 publication of the only edition ever
called The Works, which reprinted the sermons of "Dr Donne." Later
chapters trace a second revival, when admirers of the biography,
turning to the prose letters and the poems to supplement Walton,
discovered that his hero's writings entail the sorts of
controversial issues that are raised by Browning, by the 'fleshly
school' of poets, and by self-consciously "decadent" writers of the
fin de siecle.
The final chapters treat the spread of the academic study of Donne
from Harvard, where already in the 1880s he was the anchor of the
seventeenth-century course, to other institutions and beyond the
academy, showing that Donne's status as a writer eclipsed his
importance as the subject of Walton's narrative, which Leslie
Stephen facetiously called "the masterpiece of English biography."
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