| Selected Letters: John Donne Contributor(s): Donne, John (Author), Oliver, P. M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1857545613 ISBN-13: 9781857545616 Publisher: Carcanet Press OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2006 Annotation: Whether sharing his anxieties about writing, consoling bereaved friends, complaining about the meanness of a patron, or defending himself against malicious gossip, John Donne reveals himself in these letters with a directness that can be found nowhere else in his writings. The 95 included letters, dating from the late 1590s until a short time before Donne's death, constitute approximately half of his surviving correspondence and are addressed to a variety of recipients, revealing his role as not only a poet but as a father, son, husband, friend, suitor, courtier, and pastor. Although what the letters reveal is far from edifying, they corroborate the impression created by Donne's better-known writings that he was one of the most remarkable figures the English Renaissance produced. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Letters - Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.3 |
| Series: Fyfield Books |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.38" W x 8.58" (0.34 lbs) 134 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Theometrics - Secular |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It is in the letters of John Donne (1571/2-1631) that the vulnerable candour underlying the vagaries of the poems is manifest. They are, as it were, the historical and spiritual substructure of his fluent and indefatigable imagination. |