Desiring Donne: Poetry, Sexuality, Interpretation

by Ben Saunders

Throughout his life, John Donne was well acquainted with the consequences of desire. He wanted a courtly career badly enough to renounce the Catholicism of his childhood. Later, he wanted a woman badly enough to gamble that career for her sake; he lost, but found a new calling in the Anglican Church. There he pursued philosophical and theological questions with an intensity to match his former social ambitions, and was not above addressing God...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674023471
• ISBN13: 9780674023475
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"