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• Political and Social Criticism in "The Calme" Student essay by John DeStefano.
• Paraphrase Used in a Review Excerpt from the Eric Griffiths review of William Empson's posthumous Essays on Renaissance Literature.
• Cambridge History of English and American Literature Covers the period from Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton, which includes "Donne's Relation to Petrarch," "His Life," "Songs and Sonets," "Letters and Funerall Elegies," and "His Position and Influence."
• Love Poetry of John Donne An essay by Ian Mackean on the role of love in Donne's Songs and Sonnets.
• Book Review Elizabeth Hodgson reviews The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 8: The Epigrams, Epithalamions, Epitaphs, Inscriptions, and Miscellaneous Poems. Gary A. Stringer, et al.
• Book Reviews Elizabeth Hodgson reviews two books: John Donne. Pseudo-Martyr. Ed. Anthony Raspa; John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility, by Dennis Flynn.
• Book Review Nathan P. Tinker reviews Barbara Estrin's Laura: Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell.
• Book Review Claude J. Summers reviews The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne (vol. 6): The Anniversaries and The Epicedes and Obsequies. Gen. Ed. Gary A. Stringer.
• Colon and Semi-Colon in Donne's Prose Letters: Practice and Principle Suggests that "Donne's colon and semicolon usage reveals several Donnean principles of punctuation." By Emma L. Roth-Schwartz.
• John Donne's Use of Space "Donne's spatial imagination: its cosmographic assumptions, and its many contradictions," by Lisa Gorton.
• Book Review Gary Kuchar reviews Ronald Corthell's Ideology and Desire in Renaissance Poetry: The Subject of Donne.
• The Metaphysical Sonnets of John Donne and Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski: A Comparison Magdalena Kay suggests that "Both poets work out their ideas through paradox and syntactic play."
• "I haue often such a sickly inclination": Biography and the Critical Interpretation of Donne's Suicide Tract, Biathanatos R. G. Siemens suggests that the tract should be read "as a detached . . . examination of the moral implications of an action," rather than a reflection of Donne's state of mind.
• John Donne's "Lamentations" and Christopher Fetherstone's Lamentations . . . in prose and meeter (1587) Ted-Larry Pebworth argues that Donne engaged the 1587 edition of Fetherstone's "Lamentations" to translate the text into English.
• W[illiam] S[hakespeare]'s "A Funeral Elegy" and the Donnean Moment Claude J. Summers argues that "A Funeral Elegy" shares an affinity with Donne's mourning poems, but "rejects those very qualities of expansive symbolism and abstraction that the later plays share with the Anniversaries."
• "Witness this Booke, (thy Emblem)": Donne's Holy Sonnets and Biography Diana Treviño Benet argues that the sonnets have been widely studied in terms of the poet's theology, but "their recourse to biography" deserves critical attention.
• Britten and Donne: Holy Sonnets Set to Music Bryan N. S. Gooch argues that the ordering of the Sonnets in Britten's Opus 35 reflects the composer's personal experience of visiting German concentration camps.
• Trumpet Vibrations: Theological Reflections on Donne's Doomsday Sonnet G. Richmond Bridge relates the octave of Holy Sonnet VII to "the substance of much millenarian thought and preaching."
• Donne, Herbert, and the Worm of Controversy By Louis Martz. Ecclesiastical dispute in the British Church as reflected in the works of Donne and Herbert.
• "The strangest pageant, fashion'd like a court": John Donne and Ben Jonson to 1600 -- Parallel Lives William F. Blissett suggests that a Jonson reference to a "Dr. Done . . . encourages a consideration of the parallel literary lives of Jonson and Donne."
• John Donne the Divine and Mundane Analyzes Donne's poetry in terms of his change in lifestyles throughout his career. By Yoshiko Fujito. [.PDF]
• New Pleasures Prove: Evidence of Dialectical Disputatio in Early Modern Manuscript Culture Margaret Downs-Gamble examines Donne's poems in terms of the manuscript culture of the times.