A comprehensive selection of Donne's work, this book contains the poems and excerpts from all his prose writings including private letters, and writing on political, ethical and religious subjects. There are over 130 extracts from the sermons, and the full text of his final sermon, "Death's ...
The historical and religious context of the poem is also important to understanding its meaning. John Donne was a 17th-century English poet and cleric who lived during a time of great religious upheaval. The Protestant Reformation had challenged the authority of the Catholic Church, and many peopl...
Guibbory, Achsah, Returning to John Donne, Farnham, Ashgate, 2015; hardback; pp. Returning to John Donne John Donne and Religious Authority in the Reformed English Church. John Donne and Religious Authority in the Reformed English Church Set in England in the year 1604, Love's Alchemy: A ...
At the same time, the poem is also deeply rooted in its historical and cultural context. Donne was writing during a time of great religious turmoil in England, and his poetry often reflects this. In this poem, for example, he draws on ideas from Christian theology and apocalyptic literature...
for the act would not merely be cruelty to which she is used. It will be a sin, a sacrilege. It would be a triple murder. Donne’s use of religious terms for the trivial act of killing a flea imparts a peculiar intensity and immediacy to his desire for physical union with his belov...
Most of John Donne’s writing is similar to the religious sonnets of Anne Vaughan Lock, because of the dark, gloomy and despairing tones (Evans par. 2) Donne frequently wrote and preached on themes of death and mortality, but in “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, there is no “gloomy obsessio...
John Donne Essay for Hsc Students of the poetry ofJohnDonne‚ why do you think he is considered worthy of the study for HSC students today? The work ofJohnDonneis complex poetic techniques that explore the spiritual‚ religious and metaphysical qualities of love. Different interpretations of ...
the paramount importance ofScriptureas a guide in matters of faith, and religioustolerationtoward dissidents. As a civil servant, Milton became the voice of the English Commonwealth after 1649 through his handling of its international correspondence and his defense of the government against polemical ...
百度试题 题目__is the first important religious poet in English literature. A.John DonneB.George HerbertC.CaedmonD.Milton相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 C 反馈 收藏