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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Selections from Dr. John Donne. (1573?1631.) Something new in English literature hegins in Donne, something which proceeded, under his potent influence, to colour poetry for nearly a hundred years. The exact mode in which that influence was immediately distrihuted is unknown to us, or very dimly perceived. . . . 'The style of Donne, like a very odd perfume, was found to cling to every one who touched it. . . . There is no writer who demands more careful study than this enigmatical and suhterranean master, this veiled Isis whose utterances outweighed the oracles of all the visihle gods. EDMUND GOSSE. ( 4 T T is true thM . . there are those, and many of I them, who can never and will never like Donne. No one who thinks Don Quixote a merely funny book, no one who sees in Aristophanes a dirty-minded fellow with a knack of Greek versification, no one who thinks it impossible not to wish that Shakespeare had not written the Sonnets, no one who wonders what on earth Giordano Bruno meant by Gli eroici Furori, need trouble himself even to attempt to like Donne. . . But for those who have experienced, or who at least understand, the ups- and-downs, the ins-and-outs of human temperament, the alternations not merely of passion and satiety, but of passion and laughter, of passion and melancholy reflection, of passion earthly enough and spiritual rapture almost heavenly, there is no poet and hardly any writer like Donne. . . Nos passions, says Bossuet, ont quelque chose d'infini. To express infinity no doubt is a contradiction in terms. But no poet has gone nearer to the hinting and adumbration of this infinite quality of passion, and of the relapses and reactions from passion, than the author of 'The Second Anniversary, ' and 'The Dream, ' of 'The Relique, ' and ' The Ecstasy.'
| ISBN-13 | 9780217887700 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217887708 |
| Weight | 0.73 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 222 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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