John Donne Eman Poet Lib #33 (Everyman Poetry) [Paperback]

John Donne (Author), Dennis Enright (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1997 | Series: Everyman Poetry (Book 33)

Poems of faith, love and revenge by a man of intense sexuality and an ardent belief in Christian doctrine.

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John Donne's love poetry is a magnetic mix of the soul singing, intellectual rigor, and the lascivious prod. Seductions abound, but go hand in hand with metaphors of science, discovery, and conquest: "License my roving hands, and let them go, / Behind, before, above, between, below. / O my America! my new-found-land, / My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned ..." In "The Flea," the speaker even uses a revolting parasite to persuade his young woman to bed. Since the flea has bitten both of them already, he urges, why should they not commingle on a larger scale? But in one of Donne's trademark reversals, the argument fails when the woman squashes the offending insect.

"The Good Morrow" is a good deal more romantic, opening: "I wonder by my troth, what thou and I / Did, till we loved?" Lines such as "And now good morrow to our waking souls, / Which watch not one another out of fear; / For love all love of other sights controls, / And makes one little room an everywhere" have even made the poem a wedding standard. ("The Sun Rising" is another nuptial favorite.) As usual, however, the poet adds a tincture of imperfection to the vision: the persona's excuse (charming but dubious), "If ever any beauty I did see, / Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee." Though readers might concentrate on the love songs and sonnets, John Carey's edition of the Selected Poetry offers much more, including satires, epigrams, and Donne's brilliant holy sonnets. As rugged, brilliantly contorted, and fraught with feeling as his more diurnal poetry, they are also equally concerned with inconstancy--Donne was born a Catholic, but converted to Anglicanism in 1593. "Batter my heart, three-personed God" ends: "Take me to You, imprison me, for I / Except You' enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except You ravish me." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Love Elegies: Elegy 13. Love's Progress
Air [aire] And Angels
An Anatomy Of The World: The First Anniversary
The Anniversary [anniversarie]
The Apparition
The Bait
The Blossom
Break Of Day
The Broken Heart
The Canonization
Community
The Computation
Confined Love
The Cross
The Curse
The Dampe
The Dissolution
The Dream
The Dream (image Of Her)
Early Verse Letters: The Calm
Early Verse Letters: The Storm. To Mr Christopher Brooke
Early Verse Letters: To Mr E.g.
Early Verse Letters: To Mr Rowland Woodward
Early Verse Letters: To Mr S.b.
Early Verse Letters: To Mr T.w.
Early Verse Letters: To Mr T.w.
Early Verse Letters: To Sir Henry Wotten
Early Verse Letters: To Sir Henry Wotton/ambassador/venice
The Ecstasy [extasie]
Elegie On Mistress Boulstred
Elegy On The Lady Markham
An Elegy Upon The Death Of Mistress Bulstrode
Epigram: A Burnt Ship
Epigram: A Lame Beggar
Epigram: A Licentious Person
Epigram: A Selfe Accuser
Epigram: An Obscure Writer
Epigram: Antiquary
Epigram: Cales And Guyana
Epigram: Disinherited
Epigram: Fall Of A Wall
Epigram: Klockius
Epigram: Mercurius Gallo-belgicus
Epigram: Niobe
Epigram: Phyrne
Epigram: Pyramus And Thisbe
Epigram: Raderus
Epigram: Ralphius
Epigram: Sir John Wingefield
Epigram: The Juggler
Epigram: The Lier
Epigrams: Hero And Leander
Epitaph On Himself: To The Countess Of Bedford
Epithalamion Made At Lincolnes Inne
An Epithalamion, Or Marriage Song On Lady Elizabeth
The Expiration
Farewell To Love
A Fever
The Flea
The Funeral
A Funeral Elegy
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
The Good-morrow
Holy Sonnet: 10
Holy Sonnet: 17
Holy Sonnet: 18
Holy Sonnet: 19
Holy Sonnet: 5
Holy Sonnet: Satire 1
Holy Sonnet: Satire 2
Holy Sonnet: Satire 3. On Religion
Holy Sonnet: Satire 4
Holy Sonnet: Satire 5
Holy Sonnets: 1
Holy Sonnets: 11
Holy Sonnets: 12
Holy Sonnets: 13
Holy Sonnets: 14
Holy Sonnets: 15
Holy Sonnets: 16
Holy Sonnets: 2
Holy Sonnets: 3
Holy Sonnets: 4
A Hymn To Christ, At The Author's Last Going Into Germany
Hymn To God My God, In My Sickness
A Hymn To God The Father
The Indifferent
A Jet Ring Sent
La Corona: 1
La Corona: 2. Annunciation
La Corona: 3. Nativity
La Corona: 4. Temple
La Corona: 5. Crucifying
La Corona: 6. Resurrection
La Corona: 7. Ascension
A Lecture Upon The Shadow
The Legacy
The Litany: 1. The Father
The Litany: 10. The Martyrs
The Litany: 11. The Confessors
The Litany: 12. The Virgins
The Litany: 13. The Doctors
The Litany: 14
The Litany: 15
The Litany: 16
The Litany: 17
The Litany: 18
The Litany: 19
The Litany: 2. The Son
The Litany: 20
The Litany: 21
The Litany: 22
The Litany: 23
The Litany: 24
The Litany: 25
The Litany: 26
The Litany: 27
The Litany: 28
The Litany: 3. The Holy Ghost
The Litany: 4. The Trinity
The Litany: 5. The Virgin Mary
The Litany: 6. The Angels
The Litany: 7. The Patriarchs
The Litany: 8. The Prophets
The Litany: 9. The Apostles
Love Elegies: Elegy 1. The Bracelet
Love Elegies: Elegy 10. Love's War
Love Elegies: Elegy 11. On His Mistress
Love Elegies: Elegy 14. The Comparison
Love Elegies: Elegy 15. The Autumnal
Love Elegies: Elegy 2. To His Mistress Going To Bed
Love Elegies: Elegy 3. Jealousy
Love Elegies: Elegy 4. The Anagram
Love Elegies: Elegy 5. Change
Love Elegies: Elegy 6. The Perfume
Love Elegies: Elegy 7. His Picture
Love Elegies: Elegy 8. On Sir Thomas Egerton
Love Elegies: Elegy 9
Love's Alchemy
Love's Deity
Love's Diet
Love's Elegies: Elegy 13, Love's Progress
Love's Exchange
Love's Growth
Love's Usury
Lovers' Infiniteness
The Message
Negative Love
A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy's Day, Being The Shortest Day
The Paradox
The Primrose, Being At Mountgomery Castle, Upon The Hill ...
The Progress Of The Soul [metempsychosis]
The Prohibition
The Relic
Resurrection, Imperfect
Sappho To Philaenis
Song
Song
The Sun Rising
To E. Of D. With Six Holy Sonnets
To E. Of D. With Six Holy Sonnets: 10
To E. Of D. With Six Holy Sonnets: 7
To E. Of D. With Six Holy Sonnets: 8
To E. Of D. With Six Holy Sonnets: 9
To Mrs Magdalen Herbert Of St Mary Magdalene
To Mrs. M.h
To Sir Edward Herbert, At Juliers
To Sir Henry Goodyere
To The Countess Of Bedford (2)
To The Countess Of Bedford (3)
To The Countess Of Bedford (4)
To The Countess Of Bedford (poems About Deaths)
To The Countess Of Bedford [on New Yeares Day]
To The Countess Of Bedford; Begun In France But Never Perfected
To The Countess Of Huntingdon
To The Lady Bedford
The Triple Fool
Twickenham Garden
The Undertaking
Upon The Annunciation And Passion Falling One Day
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
A Valediction: Of My Name In The Window
A Valediction: Of The Booke
A Valediction: Of Weeping
The Will
Witchcraft By A Picture
Woman's Constancy
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 104 pages
• Publisher: Everyman Paperbacks (October 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0460879014
• ISBN-13: 978-0460879019
• Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 5.2 x 7.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,142,057 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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