The school of Donne.
Alvarez, A.(Alfred),1929-
London, Chatto and Windus,
1961,
"Substantially the text of six lectures delivered to the Christian Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton University in the spring of 1958."
Bibliogaphical footnotes.
Contents. - Donne and the understander. - The style and the courtiers. - The poetry of religious experience. - Metaphysical rhetoric: Richard Crashaw. - - The poetry of judgment: Andrew Marvell. - The game of wit and the corruption of style. Abraham Cowley. - The metaphysicals and the metaphysicians. - Appendix 1: Donne's circle. Appendix 2: Attacks on Donne. Donne and the miscellanies.
Donne, John, 1572-1631.
English poetry