John Donne and the metaphysical poets
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Edition: New ed.
Series: Bloom's modern critical views
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604135909
Subjects: Donne, John, -- 1572-1631 -- Criticism and interpretation; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Metaphysics in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The death wish of John Donne / Donald Ramsay Roberts; title: Death, loss, and Marvell's nymph / Phoebe S. Spinrad; title: Heavenly perspectives, mirrors of eternity:; title: Thomas Traherne's yearning subject / Carol Ann Johnston; title: George Herbert's sacramental puritanism / Robert Whalen; title: Crashaw and abjection: reading the unthinkable in his devotional verse / Maureen Sabine; title: George Herbert's distemper:; title: An honest shepherd's remedy for melancholy / Anne-Marie Miller Blaise; title: Historical consciousness and the politics of translation in the psalms of Henry Vaughan / Holly Faith Nelson; title: 'Hac ex consilio meo via progredieris': courtly reading and secretarial mediation in Donne's The courtier's library / Piers Brown; title: Ecstatic Donne: conscience, sin, and surprise in the sermons and the Mitcham letters / Gary Kuchar.