Donne's Anniversaries and the Poetry of Praise The Creation of a Symbolic Mode |
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Author:
| Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer |
Series title: | Princeton Legacy Library |
ISBN: | 978-0-691-61892-0 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2015 |
Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $63.00 |
Book Description:
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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 oc
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 oc