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“Impossible to isolate |
his ecstasy, his sensuality, and his cynicism.” |
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“[Donne’s poetry] objects to the heroic and sublime, |
and it objects to the simplification and separation of the mental faculties” |
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A thought to Donne was an experience; |
it modified his sensibility.” |
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the first thing to know about Donne is that he was a Catholic. The second thing to know is that he betrayed his faith |
John Carey |
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His conviction that a |
poem is worth writing if it includes him in some way |
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Donne's disturbing and mysogynistic menace |
Bill Phillips |
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Although the main focus of both poems |
(Holy Sonnets 10 and 17) is death, Donne's ego manages to steal the spotlight. |
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[Donne's poetry] is less an expression of love than a record of rape. |
Steve Davies |
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Donne saw in his wife Anne |
a glimpse of the glory of God, and in human love a revelation of the nature of Divine Love. |
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[Donne's holy images] bridge |
the gap between sense and spirit. |
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Donne has a habit |
of grabbing your lapels and demanding the attention of the reader
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He seemed to shapeshift |
his way through life |
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"A rhetorician, not a poet" |
Thomas De Quincey |
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"The briefest |
of images can sometimes blossom into the most complex of thoughts" |
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"Idea of religious worship, |
sin, penitence and frank physical sexuality are combined in an almost shocking conclusion." |
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The idea of damnation |
paled in imaginative horror before the ghostly interval between death and rebirth |
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Nothing could approximate |
the horror of losing himself within the collect mass of the dead |