Donne's "Anniversaries" and the Poetry of Praise: The Creation of a Symbolic Mode

by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

Book Overview

In his occasional poetry, and especially in his two elegaic Anniversary poems, Donne created a special symbolic mode in seventeenth-century poetry of praise and compliment. Barbara Kiefer Lewalski's reading of the Anniversary poems recognizes them as complex mixed-genre works which weld together formal, thematic, and structural elements from the occasional poem of praise, the funeral elegy, the funeral sermon, the hymn, the anatomy, and the Protestant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691062587
• ISBN13: 9780691062587
• Release Date: November 1973
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.