John Donne, body and soul

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John Donne, body and soul

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Ramie Targoff

Creator

• Targoff, Ramie

Subject

• Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century
• Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Body and soul in literature
• Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Philosophy
• Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Religion
• Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Criticism and interpretation

Language

eng

Summary

"John Donne, one of the most brilliant poets and preachers of the English Renaissance, lived a life full of dramatic changes of fortune, and his writing reflects his wide range of experiences. His collected works vary from passionate love poems to devotional sonnets, from quiet meditations to caustic satires, and from decorous elegies to thundering sermons. For centuries readers have struggled to fuse the seemingly scattered pieces of Donne's life into a complete image of the poet and priest that does not depend on a radical division between the two. In John Donne, Body and Soul, Ramie Targoff offers a way to read Donne as a writer who returned again and again to a single great subject, one that connected to his deepest intellectual and emotional concerns." "Reappraising Donne's entire oeuvre in pursuit of the struggles and commitments that connect his most disparate works, Targoff convincingly shows that Donne believed throughout his life in the mutual necessity of body and soul. Any experience (illness, sex, or reading a book) that ignored either its spiritual or physical component was for Donne inevitably incomplete. In chapters that range from his earliest letters to his final sermon, Targoff reveals that Donne's obsessive imagining of both the natural union and the inevitable division between body and soul is the most abiding subject of his writing."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

821/.3

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR2248

LC item number

.T37 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography