Overview
Synthesizes original poetry with essays in order to present a rich reflection of Donne's effect on contemporary literature
Unites perspectives from renowned authors and poets of diverse nationalities and academic backgrounds
Provides an original approach to Donne studies
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This collection of poems and essays by both poets and scholars explores how John Donne’s writing has entered into the language, the imagination, and the navigation of erotic and spiritual desires and experiences of twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers. The chapters chart a winding path from a description of the Donne and Contemporary Poetry Project at Fordham University to an encounter with the Holy Sonnets to a set of modern holy sonnets and then through the work of a poet who used Donne’s Devotions on Emergent Occasions to chart his own dying. There are further poems on sickness and recovery, an essay on Donne and disease that brings in the work of an Australian poet, and several chapters of poems with various Donnean echoes. Of the final four chapters, one places Donne in relation to another poet and one to the Psalms, followed by two chapters on Donne’s speech figures and his poetics.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Judith Scherer Herz is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Concordia University. She has written on Donne, Milton, Shakespeare, and other early modern writers, including essays on Donne and twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry. She has also written on Bloomsbury writers, including several books on E. M. Forster as well as articles on Forster and on Leonard Woolf.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: John Donne and Contemporary Poetry
Book Subtitle: Essays and Poems
Editors: Judith Scherer Herz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55300-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55299-6Published: 02 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85622-3Published: 10 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55300-9Published: 18 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 221
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary History