Title: The enigmatic narrator
First published: 1994
Description: Although John Donne enjoyed a reputation as a "visitor of ladies" during his lifetime, the poetry that he left in manuscript can lead modern readers to doubt that the objects of his affection were always women. In early verse letters, Donne very explicitly penned loving sentiments to another man.

In later poems that have traditionally been read as heterosexual expressions of love, readers can find themselves lost in a welter of pronouns that, often insufficiently determinate of gender, can fit convincingly in a homoerotic context.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, English Epistolary poetry, English Erotic poetry, Epistolary poetry, English, Erotic poetry, English, History, History and criticism, Homosexuality and literature, Masculinity in literature, Narration (Rhetoric), Persona (Literature), Renaissance, Sex in literature, Donne, john, 1572-1631, Erotic poetry, history and criticism, Renaissance, england, English Gay erotic poetry
Places: England
People: John Donne (1572-1631)
Time periods: 17th century
LC classification: PR2248 .K59 1994