The John Donne Society Forum

Pascal Caillet

I am starting a paper on Essays in Divinity and I thought this would be just the right place for my request: I am looking for any critical work (article, book chapter, bibliography, reference, etc., apart from E. M. Simpson's edition, which I already know) on these Essays. Would any of you be so kind as t...

Tom Cain

We are now circulating the final programme for this conference on 'Community and Conviviality in the Work of Robert Herrick and His Contemporaries' to be held in and near Herrick's parish of Dean Prior, Devonshire from 18th-20th July this year. It can be read via this link: http://herrick.ncl.ac...

Mitchell Harris

In his "Challenge Sermon" delivered at St. Pauls Cross on November 26, 1559, Bishop John Jewel argued that the Church Fathers were the true architects of the Christian religion and that the English people would no longer be subjected to the sort of medieval tampering that had led the one t...

Thomas Tseng

Dear all, Here are the latest settings of Donne's poems by Ketil Bjornstad. The album, The Light, has just been released. Thomas

Justin Kim

Please help! Does anyone know which of Donne's sermons address any or all of the five points of Calvinism (Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, and the Perseverance of the Saints)? Your assistance is most appreciated! Thank you in advance! Justi...

Matthew J. Smith

I would appreciate any references Donne scholars could offer to passages, especially in Donne's sermons and prose but also in his poetry, where he uses architectural or other spatial metaphors for describing anything involving the ceremonialist controversy -- including conformity, anti-pol...

Gary A. Stringer

Today is the 377th anniversary of Donne's death. Since we don't know the exact birth date, he never gets mentioned on Garrison Keillor's poet's corner thing on NPR. But today Garrison did read Marvell's "The Definition of Love."

Gary Ettari

Learned Colleagues, My name is Gary Ettari and I teach Renaissance literature at UNC-Asheville. I'm currently teaching a special topics course entitled "Renaissance Bodies and Souls" and an interesting discussion occurred the other day. After having read the Holy Sonnets and var...

Paul Ferguson

Hi, I am trying to trace a thesis or dissertation presented for the degree of M. Litt at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) entitled (something like) "Donne and Alchemy" and written by an "H Crothers". I have no further details. The University of Aberdeen cannot seem to tra...

Greg Kneidel

Hi Everyone, Now that pitchers and catchers have begun injecting each other with HGH, it's time to sign up for fantasy baseball. I know you have a lot of fb options, but the Batter my heart (tm) JDS Fantasy Baseball League: * is free. All you need is a free Yahoo account, which is free. * takes up as littl...

Tom Cain

This is to invite as many members of the Donne Society as possible to come to this conference on 'Community and Conviviality in the work of Robert Herrick and his contemporaries', to be held this summer near Herrick's vicarage and church at Dean Prior, Devon. Details are on the Herrick project webs...

Jameela Lares

I just got a welcome to the Donne Society mailing list. I am happy to be on it, but didn't request the subscription, so I am wondering if there is a new list that has been set up that I should happily welcome OR if I should delete the e-mail in case it is some weird case of spam. Elucidations would be welcome....

Dennis Flynn

I can't get enough of this poem because, unlike a surprising (to me) number of people at the conference, I really like it. After Ray said it didn't work for him, a bunch of people agreed with him and offered the three stanzas beginning with "Here" (as Judith described them, though she did not...

Margaret Downs-Gamble

At the Donne Conference, Gary Stringer announced a need for volunteers to make Donne's texts accessible on-line. I am interested in helping make that happen, and would be interested in hearing from others who would like to participate. Thanks, Margaret Downs-Gamble downsgamble@gmail.com

Mary Novik

My novel, Conceit, about Pegge, the daughter of John Donne, has just been published by Doubleday Canada and is available in the US through on-line bookstores like Amazon.com. It should be even easier to buy when it comes out in paperback in Canada in July 2008, and my agent is looking for a US publi...

Siobhan Collins

Dear all, The following electronic conference may be of interest, and includes a paper I'm presenting on Donne: APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance/Early Modern Literature & Culture E-Conference: February, 2008 Genres and Cultures http://appositions.blogspot.com/ You are invited...

Thomas Tseng

music.(http://www.tsrocks.com/j/joan_baez_texts/no_man_is_an_island.html)

Chanita Goodblatt

Shalom y'all I was wondering if someone could help me regarding an explanation that Donne writes/preaches in his sermon on the Penitential Psalm 38:3: "our very Laws presume, that if he be alive, he will cry, and if he be not heard cry, conclude him to be born dead" (Sermons 2:78-9). Does a...

Iben Schandel

Hi. I'm a student at a Danish school and I wanted to hear if anyone on this board knows of any websites, books or the like where the author(s) discuss or analyze his works. I would be very thankful for any information you could provide me with.

Paras Malhotra

I am a law student from Canada. I was introduced to Donne when I fell in love with a girl a year ago, until then I had never really indulged in poetry. I was wondering if there is a book or an online source that can help me understand the poems. Of course I do get a general idea when I read them, but I want a more in...

Gary Stringer

Dear All, As we prepare to apply for renewed NEH support for the Variorum, we're trying to decide how we ought to expand our DigitalDonne site (http://digitaldonne.tamu.edu), and I'd like your advice. We now have presentations of the 1633 and 1635 editions of the Poems, which include digital ima...

Jesús CORA ALONSO

Dear all, I am comparing reproductions of different instances of Donne's signature, especially on flyleaves of books that belonged to him, and I wonder what the ampersand-like character at the end stands for. If it only appeared on the flyleaves of his books, it might be the "s" of the ge...

John N Wall

The contemporary composer K. Lee Scott has composed a choral piece called Requiem that uses Donne texts. You can learn more about him, and about how to order a CD of Requiem here: http://www.kleescott.com/ I heard some of this on a local classical music radio station. Sounded very nice. He has also do...

Mitch Harris

The John Donne Society welcomes papers for a sponsored session at the ICMS, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8-11, 2008. Please send hard copy of (300 word) abstract and cover sheet as per ICMS form (see links on congress web site ) by/before September 15, 2007 to Scott Vander Ploeg at the address below....

Theresa DiPasquale

My husband and I recently ordered the first season of the British TV show "Hex" through Netflix. A scene early in the opening episode features a classroom in which a group of insolent private school teens are listening to their teacher read "The Good Morrow." The subsequent...

Theresa DiPasquale

If your tastes run to folk/punk, check out the following URL: http://www.myspace.com/johndonnesongs Karl Kolbel (umlaut over the o, but I can't find a way to include that in this text editor), the musician who set these pieces and performs them, sent me the link and said that a CD may be available nex...

I. Ballocchi

Hi to all, i would like you to know about a new italian site about John Donne's translations. I think it might be helpful for those of you who can understand both this two beautiful languages. The site is www.johndonne.org bye!

Thomas Tseng (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)

Dear all, Ketil Bjornstad, Norwegian composer/pianist, has just finished recording his third Donne album, entitled The Light & Four Nordic Songs, which will be released in 2008. The album contains the following settings: "The Dream," "The Prohibition," "A Val...

patrick sullivan padraeg@hotmail.com

Can you send me Dunne's original version pls? padraeg@hotmail.com

Mitch Harris

CFP: Resurrecting the "First Five Hundred": The Fathers and Early Modern English Culture, 1500-1660 In his "Challenge Sermon" delivered at St. Pauls Cross on November 26, 1559, Bishop John Jewel argued that the English divines would assert as foundational the underlying...

Noel

Greetings one and all. Someone has posed a question to me, and I'm stumped. In Donne's "The Primrose," he walks "to find a true love." Now, I'm assuming he's not just wandering about on the hill, looking for a girlfriend, although that's possible I sup...

greg kneidel

To his ingenious friend. R. A. Desert and praise are Twiins. The first being quicke, The second still is so; of if it die, Then is the first too sound, or else too sicke, And so may dye in grace, or Envies eye. But this with wonder in my stomacke stickes, That Satyrs wrapt but in base Balladrie Are prais'...

Gary Stringer

We are pleased to announce that our new web site Digital Donne is up and running. This first installment includes a presentation of page images and transcriptions of the 1633 Poems, together with tools--such as a concordance--for analyzing the volume and its texts. Other items will follow shortly...

Steven Rubenstein

Does anybody know why Donne (if that is who titled them so) called his Elegies "Elegies"? As far as I can tell, there's nothing elegiac about them. What did he (or his editors) understand an "elegy" to mean?

Siobhan Collins

Dear all, As colour plays such a symbolic role in Donne’s writings, I’m curious to know the dress / colour code for early modern Anglican preachers. What would Donne have worn as he preached from the pulpit of St Pauls? Many thanks, Siobhan Collins

greg kneidel

The John Donne Society will be sponsoring two panels at the 2007 MLA Annual Convention in Chicago. The first is entitled “Politics, Presence, and Place in John Donne’s Sacred and Profane Poetry.” The second is an open session on any aspect of Donne’s life and writings. Please submit 8-10 page pa...

Mitch Harris

The Society website has the 2007 Conference running from February 14-18. Is this correct? Typically, we run from Thursday to Sunday (Feb. 15-18).

Anita Sherman

Woops! By thanking Roberta for her suggestions, I didn't mean to cut off any further posts. Please consider the topic wide open. I'm very interested in the how-to of obtaining permissions for photographs that are available on the web and elsewhere. Sincerely, Anita Sherman

Anita Gilman Sherman

Learned friends and colleagues: How does one go about obtaining permission to reproduce a photograph of the two Drury funeral monuments as well as the Donne funeral monument? Does anyone have experience with this? I've just signed a contract with Palgrave MacMillan for my book, "Skepticism and...

Dr. Holly Faith Nelson

I have fallen a little behind this year in putting together a list of the 2005 publications on Donne for my review of Donne studies in The Year's Work in English Studies. I want to be sure that I have not missed anything. If you are able to peruse this list and let me know if you have wr...

Carmela McIntire

Hello all, I recently came upon several lines of poetry attributed to Prudentius Silentarius which are very close to the lines in Donne's Elegy 19 beginning "Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee!" I still have to find source of the Prudentius passage; but in looking at the editions of Donne's...

Audrey Campbell

And now good morrow to our waking souls We find,upon searching the word 'morrow', that a word in common use at the time the poem was written, is 'marrow', which means: companion, partner, match, equal. Since this word fits so well the context of the poem, could it have been misspell...

Dennis Flynn

Boston Globe, 26 February 2006: "FORT MYERS, Fla.--Union chief Gene Orza, during a World Baseball Classic conference call yesterday, was asked about Manny Ramirez's participation and said, "John Donne might have been wrong that no man is an island." (Thanks to Paul Wann for this reference.)...

David Parry

Hi. I'm an MPhil student in Renaissance Literature at Cambridge and am working on my MPhil thesis (due August 31st) on models of selfhood in Donne. In general terms I'm looking at the two models suggested by the etymologies of 'individual' and 'person' and seeing whether they can be reconciled ...

Pam Davis

I welcome any ideas/insights about the cragged hill of truth (my paraphrase) mentioned in Satire III. Is that imagery evident elsewhere in Donne's oeuvre? What are other images of truth? Combs and Sullen's Concordance only has four references to "truth." Thanks.

SEONAID ABERNETHY

Dear Colleagues, I am the writer of a short film screenplay, 'The Canonisation of Hinemoa and Tutanekai'. This uses the poem ,"The Canonoisation" by John Donne. It takes the traditional Moari love story of Hinemoa and Tutanekai whereby Hinemoa swims the cold deep Lake Rotor...

greg kneidel

Hi Everyone, Many of us access Donne's sermons more easily (if less pleasurably) through the new BYU online edition than through Potter & Simpson's standard print edition. The BYU site identifies individual sermons by their P & S volume and number. But since each sermon on the BYU site is indivi...

Nick Lindsay

Dear Donne Forum Readers, Please forgive the somewhat commercial nature of this post, but I thought it may be of interest to forum readers. Huntington Library Quarterly Volume 69, no. 1: A Special Issue: “Railing Rhymes: Politics and Poetry in Early Stuart England” Huntington Lib...

Eric Boagey

I've taken the liberty of co-opting Donne as co-author of a play I have written on his life: JohnDonne, The Exstasie. I've quoted from poems, letters and sermons in an imagined dramatic context with the inevitable poetic licence; but Donne, I need hardly say, gives the play whatever quality i...

John R. Roberts

Does anyone know where the following appears: He can bring the summer out of winter though thou have no spring. All Occasions invite His mercies and all times are his seasons. E-mail please: RobertsJR@missouri. edu

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	Essays in Divinity (Preview) I am starting a paper on Essays in Divinity and I thought this would be just the right place for my request: I am looking for any critical work (article, book chapter, bibliography, reference, etc., apart from E. M. Simpson's edition, which I already know) on these Essays. Would any of you be so kind as t...	Pascal Caillet	3	2816	Tue Nov 18 6:33 PM, 2008 by Anonymous
	Lords of Wine and Oil (Preview) We are now circulating the final programme for this conference on 'Community and Conviviality in the Work of Robert Herrick and His Contemporaries' to be held in and near Herrick's parish of Dean Prior, Devonshire from 18th-20th July this year. It can be read via this link: http://herrick.ncl.ac...	Tom Cain	0	2144	Mon Jun 16 7:34 AM, 2008 by Tom Cain
	CFP: (Collection) Resurrecting the "First Five Hundred": The Church Fathers in Early Modern England (Preview) In his "Challenge Sermon" delivered at St. Pauls Cross on November 26, 1559, Bishop John Jewel argued that the Church Fathers were the true architects of the Christian religion and that the English people would no longer be subjected to the sort of medieval tampering that had led the one t...	Mitchell Harris	0	2527	Sat Jun 14 3:40 PM, 2008 by Mitchell Harris
	new settings of Donne's poems (Preview) Dear all, Here are the latest settings of Donne's poems by Ketil Bjornstad. The album, The Light, has just been released. Thomas	Thomas Tseng	1	2124	Tue Jun 10 1:55 AM, 2008 by Anonymous
	The Five Points of Calvinism and the Sermons of John Donne (Preview) Please help! Does anyone know which of Donne's sermons address any or all of the five points of Calvinism (Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, and the Perseverance of the Saints)? Your assistance is most appreciated! Thank you in advance! Justi...	Justin Kim	2	4405	Tue Apr 12 7:47 AM, 2011 by Anonymous
	The Ceremonialism Controversy and Architectural analogies (Preview) I would appreciate any references Donne scholars could offer to passages, especially in Donne's sermons and prose but also in his poetry, where he uses architectural or other spatial metaphors for describing anything involving the ceremonialist controversy -- including conformity, anti-pol...	Matthew J. Smith	0	3437	Tue Apr 22 9:22 AM, 2008 by Matthew J. Smith
	Anniversary (Preview) Today is the 377th anniversary of Donne's death. Since we don't know the exact birth date, he never gets mentioned on Garrison Keillor's poet's corner thing on NPR. But today Garrison did read Marvell's "The Definition of Love."	Gary A. Stringer	1	2423	Tue Aug 31 1:42 AM, 2010 by Anonymous
	Student questions re: Donne and the body (Preview) Learned Colleagues, My name is Gary Ettari and I teach Renaissance literature at UNC-Asheville. I'm currently teaching a special topics course entitled "Renaissance Bodies and Souls" and an interesting discussion occurred the other day. After having read the Holy Sonnets and var...	Gary Ettari	4	3639	Sat Nov 20 1:27 AM, 2010 by Anonymous
	Searching for thesis: "Donne and Alchemy" (Preview) Hi, I am trying to trace a thesis or dissertation presented for the degree of M. Litt at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) entitled (something like) "Donne and Alchemy" and written by an "H Crothers". I have no further details. The University of Aberdeen cannot seem to tra...	Paul Ferguson	2	2865	Wed Apr 16 7:56 AM, 2008 by Paul Ferguson
	Batter my heart -- The JDS Fantasy Baseball League (Preview) Hi Everyone, Now that pitchers and catchers have begun injecting each other with HGH, it's time to sign up for fantasy baseball. I know you have a lot of fb options, but the Batter my heart (tm) JDS Fantasy Baseball League: * is free. All you need is a free Yahoo account, which is free. * takes up as littl...	Greg Kneidel	1	2222	Sat Mar 15 2:09 AM, 2008 by Robert Guffey
	Lords of Wine & Oil: Conference July 18-20 2008 (Preview) This is to invite as many members of the Donne Society as possible to come to this conference on 'Community and Conviviality in the work of Robert Herrick and his contemporaries', to be held this summer near Herrick's vicarage and church at Dean Prior, Devon. Details are on the Herrick project webs...	Tom Cain	0	2807	Mon Mar 10 1:12 PM, 2008 by Tom Cain
	Donne Society Mailing List (Preview) I just got a welcome to the Donne Society mailing list. I am happy to be on it, but didn't request the subscription, so I am wondering if there is a new list that has been set up that I should happily welcome OR if I should delete the e-mail in case it is some weird case of spam. Elucidations would be welcome....	Jameela Lares	1	2049	Tue Mar 11 9:20 AM, 2008 by Anonymous
	Valediction of or to the Book (Preview) I can't get enough of this poem because, unlike a surprising (to me) number of people at the conference, I really like it. After Ray said it didn't work for him, a bunch of people agreed with him and offered the three stanzas beginning with "Here" (as Judith described them, though she did not...	Dennis Flynn	14	9884	Fri May 30 3:57 AM, 2008 by Fiornando Gabbrielli
	Digital/ On-line Donne Texts (Preview) At the Donne Conference, Gary Stringer announced a need for volunteers to make Donne's texts accessible on-line. I am interested in helping make that happen, and would be interested in hearing from others who would like to participate. Thanks, Margaret Downs-Gamble downsgamble@gmail.com	Margaret Downs-Gamble	2	2379	Mon Mar 3 7:07 PM, 2008 by Brent Nelson
	Mary Novik's novel Conceit, about the family of John Donne Novel about Donne (Preview) My novel, Conceit, about Pegge, the daughter of John Donne, has just been published by Doubleday Canada and is available in the US through on-line bookstores like Amazon.com. It should be even easier to buy when it comes out in paperback in Canada in July 2008, and my agent is looking for a US publi...	Mary Novik	0	2203	Wed Feb 13 9:30 PM, 2008 by Mary Novik
	Appositions: E-Conference (Preview) Dear all, The following electronic conference may be of interest, and includes a paper I'm presenting on Donne: APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance/Early Modern Literature & Culture E-Conference: February, 2008 Genres and Cultures http://appositions.blogspot.com/ You are invited...	Siobhan Collins	0	2567	Sun Feb 3 7:04 AM, 2008 by Siobhan Collins
	'No man is an island' paraphrased and set to music (Preview) music.(http://www.tsrocks.com/j/joan_baez_texts/no_man_is_an_island.html)	Thomas Tseng	1	2449	Wed Oct 14 8:05 AM, 2009 by Anonymous
	Question about Donne and Law (Preview) Shalom y'all I was wondering if someone could help me regarding an explanation that Donne writes/preaches in his sermon on the Penitential Psalm 38:3: "our very Laws presume, that if he be alive, he will cry, and if he be not heard cry, conclude him to be born dead" (Sermons 2:78-9). Does a...	Chanita Goodblatt	1	1934	Fri Jan 4 8:52 AM, 2008 by greg kneidel
	Analyzing Donne (Preview) Hi. I'm a student at a Danish school and I wanted to hear if anyone on this board knows of any websites, books or the like where the author(s) discuss or analyze his works. I would be very thankful for any information you could provide me with.	Iben Schandel	1	2388	Sun May 17 3:13 AM, 2009 by rybchukman
	Understanding Donne (Preview) I am a law student from Canada. I was introduced to Donne when I fell in love with a girl a year ago, until then I had never really indulged in poetry. I was wondering if there is a book or an online source that can help me understand the poems. Of course I do get a general idea when I read them, but I want a more in...	Paras Malhotra	1	2945	Sun Nov 4 11:11 AM, 2007 by Greg Kneidel
	expanding DigitalDonne (Preview) Dear All, As we prepare to apply for renewed NEH support for the Variorum, we're trying to decide how we ought to expand our DigitalDonne site (http://digitaldonne.tamu.edu), and I'd like your advice. We now have presentations of the 1633 and 1635 editions of the Poems, which include digital ima...	Gary Stringer	2	2372	Sat Dec 22 12:52 PM, 2007 by Jesús CORA ALONSO
	Donne's signature (Preview) Dear all, I am comparing reproductions of different instances of Donne's signature, especially on flyleaves of books that belonged to him, and I wonder what the ampersand-like character at the end stands for. If it only appeared on the flyleaves of his books, it might be the "s" of the ge...	Jesús CORA ALONSO	2	2514	Mon Sep 24 9:03 AM, 2007 by Jesús CORA ALONSO
	EVen more Donne music (Preview) The contemporary composer K. Lee Scott has composed a choral piece called Requiem that uses Donne texts. You can learn more about him, and about how to order a CD of Requiem here: http://www.kleescott.com/ I heard some of this on a local classical music radio station. Sounded very nice. He has also do...	John N Wall	1	1996	Tue Aug 31 2:16 AM, 2010 by Raymond Edgar
	Donne at Kalamazoo (Preview) The John Donne Society welcomes papers for a sponsored session at the ICMS, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8-11, 2008. Please send hard copy of (300 word) abstract and cover sheet as per ICMS form (see links on congress web site ) by/before September 15, 2007 to Scott Vander Ploeg at the address below....	Mitch Harris	0	1725	Tue Aug 28 1:20 PM, 2007 by Mitch Harris
	A Pop Culture Moment (Preview) My husband and I recently ordered the first season of the British TV show "Hex" through Netflix. A scene early in the opening episode features a classroom in which a group of insolent private school teens are listening to their teacher read "The Good Morrow." The subsequent...	Theresa DiPasquale	4	2510	Tue Aug 31 2:10 AM, 2010 by Anonymous
	More Donne Music (Preview) If your tastes run to folk/punk, check out the following URL: http://www.myspace.com/johndonnesongs Karl Kolbel (umlaut over the o, but I can't find a way to include that in this text editor), the musician who set these pieces and performs them, sent me the link and said that a CD may be available nex...	Theresa DiPasquale	1	2275	Fri Jul 6 11:12 PM, 2007 by Thomas Tseng
	italian john donne site (Preview) Hi to all, i would like you to know about a new italian site about John Donne's translations. I think it might be helpful for those of you who can understand both this two beautiful languages. The site is www.johndonne.org bye!	I. Ballocchi	2	3768	Tue Aug 31 2:41 AM, 2010 by Forrest Hall
	Musical Donne (Preview) Dear all, Ketil Bjornstad, Norwegian composer/pianist, has just finished recording his third Donne album, entitled The Light & Four Nordic Songs, which will be released in 2008. The album contains the following settings: "The Dream," "The Prohibition," "A Val...	Thomas Tseng (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)	5	6344	Tue Aug 31 2:51 AM, 2010 by Forrest Hall
	for whom bell tolls, OLD ENGLISH (Preview) Can you send me Dunne's original version pls? padraeg@hotmail.com	patrick sullivan padraeg@hotmail.com	2	2475	Thu Feb 17 8:28 AM, 2011 by anam
	CFP: The Church Fathers and Early Modern English Culture (05/01/07) (Preview) CFP: Resurrecting the "First Five Hundred": The Fathers and Early Modern English Culture, 1500-1660 In his "Challenge Sermon" delivered at St. Pauls Cross on November 26, 1559, Bishop John Jewel argued that the English divines would assert as foundational the underlying...	Mitch Harris	0	2047	Thu Mar 29 3:02 PM, 2007 by Mitch Harris
	True Loves & Primroses (Preview) Greetings one and all. Someone has posed a question to me, and I'm stumped. In Donne's "The Primrose," he walks "to find a true love." Now, I'm assuming he's not just wandering about on the hill, looking for a girlfriend, although that's possible I sup...	Noel	4	5985	Tue Aug 31 3:04 AM, 2010 by Forrest Hall
	Do you think John Donne wrote this poem? (Preview) To his ingenious friend. R. A. Desert and praise are Twiins. The first being quicke, The second still is so; of if it die, Then is the first too sound, or else too sicke, And so may dye in grace, or Envies eye. But this with wonder in my stomacke stickes, That Satyrs wrapt but in base Balladrie Are prais'...	greg kneidel	6	2507	Thu Feb 17 8:32 AM, 2011 by anam
	Digital Donne (Preview) We are pleased to announce that our new web site Digital Donne is up and running. This first installment includes a presentation of page images and transcriptions of the 1633 Poems, together with tools--such as a concordance--for analyzing the volume and its texts. Other items will follow shortly...	Gary Stringer	0	2351	Tue Feb 20 12:49 PM, 2007 by Gary Stringer
	Why call them "Elegies"? (Preview) Does anybody know why Donne (if that is who titled them so) called his Elegies "Elegies"? As far as I can tell, there's nothing elegiac about them. What did he (or his editors) understand an "elegy" to mean?	Steven Rubenstein	5	8874	Sun Dec 12 12:25 PM, 2010 by Anonymous
	Donne's clothes (Preview) Dear all, As colour plays such a symbolic role in Donne’s writings, I’m curious to know the dress / colour code for early modern Anglican preachers. What would Donne have worn as he preached from the pulpit of St Pauls? Many thanks, Siobhan Collins	Siobhan Collins	1	2109	Wed Jan 31 7:04 AM, 2007 by Jameela Lares
	Donne at MLA 2007 -- deadline March 1, 2007 (Preview) The John Donne Society will be sponsoring two panels at the 2007 MLA Annual Convention in Chicago. The first is entitled “Politics, Presence, and Place in John Donne’s Sacred and Profane Poetry.” The second is an open session on any aspect of Donne’s life and writings. Please submit 8-10 page pa...	greg kneidel	0	1810	Thu Jan 4 3:53 PM, 2007 by greg kneidel
	2007 Conference (Preview) The Society website has the 2007 Conference running from February 14-18. Is this correct? Typically, we run from Thursday to Sunday (Feb. 15-18).	Mitch Harris	3	2243	Tue Aug 31 3:50 AM, 2010 by Forrest Hall
	further query on photographic permissions (Preview) Woops! By thanking Roberta for her suggestions, I didn't mean to cut off any further posts. Please consider the topic wide open. I'm very interested in the how-to of obtaining permissions for photographs that are available on the web and elsewhere. Sincerely, Anita Sherman	Anita Sherman	2	1998	Wed Nov 29 5:18 PM, 2006 by Gary Stringer
	query about permissions regarding Donne (Preview) Learned friends and colleagues: How does one go about obtaining permission to reproduce a photograph of the two Drury funeral monuments as well as the Donne funeral monument? Does anyone have experience with this? I've just signed a contract with Palgrave MacMillan for my book, "Skepticism and...	Anita Gilman Sherman	1	3141	Tue Nov 21 5:35 AM, 2006 by Roberta Albrecht
	2005 Donne Publications (Preview) I have fallen a little behind this year in putting together a list of the 2005 publications on Donne for my review of Donne studies in The Year's Work in English Studies. I want to be sure that I have not missed anything. If you are able to peruse this list and let me know if you have wr...	Dr. Holly Faith Nelson	1	4945	Wed Mar 7 5:41 AM, 2007 by Roberta Albrecht
	Elegy 19 (Preview) Hello all, I recently came upon several lines of poetry attributed to Prudentius Silentarius which are very close to the lines in Donne's Elegy 19 beginning "Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee!" I still have to find source of the Prudentius passage; but in looking at the editions of Donne's...	Carmela McIntire	3	3395	Mon Sep 25 1:00 PM, 2006 by Vladimir Makarov
	The Good Morrow (Preview) And now good morrow to our waking souls We find,upon searching the word 'morrow', that a word in common use at the time the poem was written, is 'marrow', which means: companion, partner, match, equal. Since this word fits so well the context of the poem, could it have been misspell...	Audrey Campbell	0	2173	Sun Aug 6 3:02 PM, 2006 by Audrey Campbell
	Donne and Manny (Preview) Boston Globe, 26 February 2006: "FORT MYERS, Fla.--Union chief Gene Orza, during a World Baseball Classic conference call yesterday, was asked about Manny Ramirez's participation and said, "John Donne might have been wrong that no man is an island." (Thanks to Paul Wann for this reference.)...	Dennis Flynn	0	1668	Sun Jul 30 11:45 AM, 2006 by Dennis Flynn
	Apophatic theology in Donne (Preview) Hi. I'm an MPhil student in Renaissance Literature at Cambridge and am working on my MPhil thesis (due August 31st) on models of selfhood in Donne. In general terms I'm looking at the two models suggested by the etymologies of 'individual' and 'person' and seeing whether they can be reconciled ...	David Parry	5	2545	Sat Jan 20 10:48 AM, 2007 by tom hester
	Satire III (Preview) I welcome any ideas/insights about the cragged hill of truth (my paraphrase) mentioned in Satire III. Is that imagery evident elsewhere in Donne's oeuvre? What are other images of truth? Combs and Sullen's Concordance only has four references to "truth." Thanks.	Pam Davis	5	5796	Thu Feb 17 8:37 AM, 2011 by anam
	'THE CANONISATION OF HINEMOA AND TUTANEKAI' Short film of the Donne poem The Canonisation (Preview) Dear Colleagues, I am the writer of a short film screenplay, 'The Canonisation of Hinemoa and Tutanekai'. This uses the poem ,"The Canonoisation" by John Donne. It takes the traditional Moari love story of Hinemoa and Tutanekai whereby Hinemoa swims the cold deep Lake Rotor...	SEONAID ABERNETHY	0	2190	Mon Jul 3 1:31 AM, 2006 by SEONAID ABERNETHY
	potter & simpson / byu page numbers (Preview) Hi Everyone, Many of us access Donne's sermons more easily (if less pleasurably) through the new BYU online edition than through Potter & Simpson's standard print edition. The BYU site identifies individual sermons by their P & S volume and number. But since each sermon on the BYU site is indivi...	greg kneidel	7	4204	Thu Jul 1 11:29 PM, 2010 by Anonymous
	Railing Rhymes: Politics and Poetry in Early Stuart England (Preview) Dear Donne Forum Readers, Please forgive the somewhat commercial nature of this post, but I thought it may be of interest to forum readers. Huntington Library Quarterly Volume 69, no. 1: A Special Issue: “Railing Rhymes: Politics and Poetry in Early Stuart England” Huntington Lib...	Nick Lindsay	1	2247	Tue Jul 4 4:41 PM, 2006 by J. Cora.
	Another John Donne play (Preview) I've taken the liberty of co-opting Donne as co-author of a play I have written on his life: JohnDonne, The Exstasie. I've quoted from poems, letters and sermons in an imagined dramatic context with the inevitable poetic licence; but Donne, I need hardly say, gives the play whatever quality i...	Eric Boagey	0	1639	Thu Jun 8 5:39 AM, 2006 by Eric Boagey
	Seeking a quotation (Preview) Does anyone know where the following appears: He can bring the summer out of winter though thou have no spring. All Occasions invite His mercies and all times are his seasons. E-mail please: RobertsJR@missouri. edu	John R. Roberts	3	1886	Tue Jan 15 11:49 PM, 2008 by Anonymous
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