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Sponsored by the John Donne Society, this forum is dedicated to the discussion of John Donne and of scholarly and professional issues related to Donne studies. All are welcome to participate in the discussions, and we have left access as open as possible: you need not be a member of the Don...
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KARACHI: State Bank of Pakistan may cut interest rates for a second straight meeting, seeking to revive growth in an economy battered by terrorism and floods. SBP will lower discount rate to 12.5 percent from 13.5, three of 5 economists in a Bloomberg news survey said. The rest predicted a reductio...
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New Donne Statue at St Paul's Cathedral
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In London after the Donne Conference, I saw a new statue of Donne that has recently (2012) been put up on the grounds of St Paul's Cathedral. Check out www.virtualpaulscrossproject.blogspot.com for images. All best, JNW PS this forum needs to become a monitored forum.
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No Man Is an Island
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Hello, Please excuse me. I am not a member of the Society. I am interested in the "No man is an island" excerpt from a Christian point of view. Specifically, I am searching for the potential implications of the excerpt on Chrsitian attitudes to humanity. Has anyone written on how this e...
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Best Donne biography
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In your opinion, what is the most complete, detailed, and well-researched biography availalbe? Thank you for your time and help. I look forward to learning more.
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Awards
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Where can I find information on the John Donne Society Awards--criteria for nomination, selection, etc. Thanks.
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Need help in translations of John Donne's poetry
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Hello, everyone! I'm looking for a native speaker of English interested in John Donne's poetry, who would help me to understand some "dark spots" in Donne. I'm trying to translate "Songs and Sonnets" to my mothertongue (belarussian) now, it's my hobby. I would be happy to ma...
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Dr. Atomic - John Adams Opera
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As some of you may already know, John Adams' new opera, "Dr. Atomic", based on the work of Robert Oppenheimer, opens in San Franscisco on 1st October. Unusually so, the libretto for the opera has been compiled from a variety of sources, including some of Donne's poetry. An article in today's Br...
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Trying to track down a quotation about Donne
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Colleagues, I'm away from my office and trying to locate a quotation about Donne on line. I believe C. S. Lewis claimed that Donne seems more learned than he is because he knows different things from us. Or something like that. I'm not having any luck on line because I can't remember the phrasing. If...
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Query: Oxford or Cambridge for Donne research?
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For a novel in which a character, a graduate student in English literature, is applying for a fellowship to do dissertation research on Donne in the U.K., I'm trying to determine whether Oxford or Cambridge would be her most logical destination. Which university's research collection would be mos...
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Buying the Lothian Portrait
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The (British) National Portrait Gallery have today launched an appeal to raise £1,652,000 ($2,936,347and 4cents) to buy the Lothian portrait of Donne, and have got 6 months to do so.
We all know this image, and it decorates just about every publication on Donne, but I imagine few of us (other than K...
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Biathanatos
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Does anyone know where I can find Donne's "Biathanatos" ?
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The Five Points of Calvinism and the Sermons of John Donne
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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...
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Is it just me or has anyone else noticed the 100 portrait miniatures on ebay that are being sold by delphisantiques on 27.3.2011. .......... They all look as though they were painted last month !!!!
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Donne's elegies
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What are the major connecting themes in Donne's elegies? And what sets them apart from the rest of his work?
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Professor John T. Shawcross passed away
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Trying To Identify A Poem?...
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Hi. I hope this doesn't come off as a bit too slack (or inappropriate) but I've been trying to track down a poem/passage: The imagery contains bees (honey makers?), being stung & drowning in honey (abandonment?). ...that's all coming off of an aural recollection from a while back so the pie...
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Holy Sonnet 18
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Donne's Holy Sonnet 18 ("Show me, dear Christ. . .") displays his concern at the challenge of finding Christ's true denominational "spouse." I would appreciate being directed to other statements about this same problem as expressed by Donne's contemporaries, whether in...
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Donne and the sun
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Hello--I am a student very intrigued by Donne's references to the sun in his poetry. Is there an efficient way to going about finding references to the sun in other poetry written in the period. I am specifically interested in whether there are other poems in which the speaker addresses the sun direct...
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Satire III
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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.
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Do you think John Donne wrote this poem?
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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'...
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for whom bell tolls, OLD ENGLISH
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Can you send me Dunne's original version pls? padraeg@hotmail.com
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John Donne Context
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Hello everybody, I've been reading some of the threads and it sounds like you guys really know John Donne Poems. I would like some help in establishing his context in relation to his poems. At the moment, I have been having trouble finding context in relation to certain poems. Aside from "Hym...
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a few questions about "Love's exchange"
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Perhaps everyone agrees Loves exchange is based on the story of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. I find the poem very witty but some parts trouble me.So, Id like some of you to answer the following questions for me. Q1. Judging from the first line, I think the god of Love is regarded as a kind of de...
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DigitalDonne: the Online Variorum
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Dear Colleagues, Although we will add a couple more features over the next week or so, the new website (DigitalDonne: the Online Variorum) is now up and available for use. We're calling Feb. 1, 2011, the official launch date. I encourage you to log on and browse around to get a sense of what is ther...
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Settings of John Donne sonnets
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Hi. I'm a doctoral student in classical voice. I am looking for any settings of John Donne's sonnets, just out of curiosity. Any ideas? I'm not looking for Kolbel or Van Morrison. :) Thanks!
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Why call them "Elegies"?
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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?
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Student questions re: Donne and the body
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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...
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Izaak Walton, Life of Donne
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There is an oft quoted line in the Life of Donne, "the English Church had gained a second S. Augustine (sig. B2)." Can anyone tell me what (sig. B2) refers to?
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Lady Mary Wroth
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Can anybody tell me the correct pronunciation of Wroth. Is it pronounced like roth or worth? Thanks.
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2007 Conference
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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).
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Donne Sermons Online
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Just wanted to let everyone know that Donne's sermons (based on the Potter and Simpson edition) are now available online -- with some nifty bells and whistles -- at {http://lib.byu.edu/donne/}. And should you ever lose track of the URL, we have linked it on the Donne Society's "Related Sites" page (...
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DV 7.1
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The Holy Sonnets volume of the Donne Variorum is out and may be purchased online at the IUP web site (http://iupress.indiana.edu). The title page and table of contents may be viewed on the DV web site (http://donnevariorum.tamu.edu).
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True Loves & Primroses
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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...
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Musical Donne
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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...
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italian john donne site
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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!
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EVen more Donne music
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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...
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A Pop Culture Moment
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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...
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Anniversary
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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."
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Tributes to Professor Al Labriola
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Please join other members of the Donne Society in posting remembrances, tributes, and celebrations of our late friend.
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