Donne and the Resources of Kind

by Cousins, A. D.; Grace, Damian

• ISBN13: 9780838639016
• ISBN10: 0838639011
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Associated Univ Pr

Summary

Donne and the Resources of Kind is the first book about Donne's writings to focus on their relations to genre. It considers what Donne took from the resources of kind and how he transformed the resources on which he drew. Most of the chapters discuss Donne's secular and religious verse but there is also discussion of Donne's religious prose.

Table of Contents

Donne and the Resources of Kind	9	(15)
A. D. Cousins
Donne, Decorum, and Truth: Grounds of His Literary Art	24	(16)
Earl Miner
Mannerist Donne: Showing Art in the Descriptive Verse Epistles and the Elegies	40	(19)
L. E. Semler
Donne's Elegies and the Ugly Beauty Tradition	59	(12)
Heather Dubrow
To ``build in sonnets pretty roomes?'': Donne and the Renaissance Love Lyric	71	(16)
N. H. Keeble
The Holy Sonnets	87	(19)
F. W. Brownlow
Gender, Genre, and the Idea of John Donne in the Anniversaries	106	(14)
Marea Mitchell
Donne the Snake-Handler	120	(18)
Eugene D. Hill
Recent Genre Criticism of the Works of John Donne	138	(8)
Damian Grace
Notes on Contributors	146	(2)
Index	148