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The love poems of John Donne / edited and introduced by Charles Fowkes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Donne, John, 1572-1631
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Love poetry, English.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 100 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, [1982]
- Summary:
- John Donne's standing as one of the greatest poets in the English language is now thoroughly established, and critics such as T. S. Eliot and F. R. Leavis have found in Donne's poetry qualities profoundly responsive to the modern age. While Donne is famous for his religious poetry, his love poems are among the most beautiful ever written, and this collection brings them together for the first time. Donne was a man who knew all the many faces of love -- physical passion, jealousy, rapture, grief and parting -- and possessed the genius to distill his experiences into poetry. The potency of his writing has lost none of its effect; Donne's love poetry taps the reservoir of feelings and emotions common to all human beings.
- Before Donne was ordained as a priest in 1615, he wrote sonnets (such as "The Dream" and "The Ecstasy"), elegies (such as "To His Mistress Going to Bed" and "Love's Progress"), and wedding songs ("St. Valentine's Day" and "Epithalamion"), all of which glitter with an eroticism that truly marries body and soul. Charles Fowkes, author of a critically acclaimed biography of Rembrandt and several anthologies of short stories, has gathered those poems in which Donne is most passionate and most lyrical. The result is this lovely volume -- the perfect gift for every beloved, a book of poems to press flowers in and to keep by the heart.
- Contents:
- Songs and Sonnets
- The Good-morrow 1
- Song: Go, and catch a falling star 2
- Woman's Constancy 3
- The Undertaking 4
- The Sun Rising 5
- The Indifferent 6
- Love's Usury 7
- The Canonization 8
- The Triple Fool 10
- Lovers' Infiniteness 11
- Song: Sweetest love, I do not go 12
- The Legacy 14
- A Fever 15
- Air and Angels 16
- Break of Day 17
- The Anniversary 18
- A Valediction: Of My Name, in the Window 19
- Twickenham Garden 22
- A Valediction: Of the Book 23
- Community 25
- Love's Growth 26
- Love's Exchange 27
- Confined Love 29
- The Dream 30
- A Valediction: Of Weeping 31
- Love's Alchemy 32
- The Flea 33
- The Curse 34
- The Message 35
- A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day 36
- Witchcraft by a Picture 38
- The Bait 39
- The Apparition 40
- The Broken Heart 41
- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 42
- The Ecstasy 44
- Love's Deity 47
- Love's Diet 48
- The Will 49
- The Funeral 51
- The Blossom 52
- The Primrose 54
- The Relic 55
- The Damp 56
- The Dissolution 57
- A Jet Ring Sent 58
- Negative Love 59
- The Prohibition 60
- The Expiration 61
- The Computation 62
- The Paradox 63
- Farewell to Love 64
- A Lecture upon the Shadow 66
- Sonnet: The Token 67
- Self-Love 68
- Song: Stay, o sweet, and do not rise (sometimes attributed to Dowland) 69
- Elegies
- Jealousy 70
- The Anagram 71
- Change 73
- The Perfume 74
- His Picture 76
- Elegy: Oh, let me not serve 77
- Elegy: Nature's lay idiot 79
- The Comparison 80
- The Autumnal 82
- The Dream 84
- The Bracelet 85
- His Parting from Her 89
- On His Mistress 92
- Love's Progress 94
- To His Mistress Going to Bed 97
- Love's War 99.
- ISBN:
- 0312499442 :
- OCLC:
- 8430875
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