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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kate Frost's obituary from the UT English Dept. website
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Professor Emerita Kate Frost dies at 71 Posted: August 3, 2010 Kate Gartner Frost, professor emerita of English at the University of Texas at Austin, died on Sunday, July 25th, 2010, in Austin, after a long battle with cancer. A scholar of the English and European Renaissance and past president o...
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interpreting Sermon 1.9.308
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Friends, I need help glossing the line, "Have they made Jobs Covenant, that they will not look upon a Maid; yet is he not come into thine ear?" I understand that Donne is challenging his audience to respond to Christ. But how is the allusion to Job working here, especially given the pron...
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Donne and Bacon
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Does anyone know if Donne ever mentions Bacon in his letters? (I assume that the two must have at least known of each other since would have been rising stars in James I's court.)
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Quotation Identification
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"Those who want to forecast the future are seeking a sate of rest. But while resting the clouds of unrest always start building up." I saw these words attributed to John Donne, but I cannot find which text they belong to. I would like to use this quotation in a text I am writing. Can someone he...
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Looking for a text..
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Hello! I'm trying to find an English translation of Donne's The courtier's library : or, Catalogus librorum aulicorum incomparabilium et non vendibilium. Does anyone know if there is an online version, or if it has been published in English since 1930? I've already spent several hours trying to...
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a further addition to DigitalDonne
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We've now got the O'Flahertie ms. mounted on the DigitalDonne site. Take a look. The images are really nice. GAS
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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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JDS Conference 2010
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I hope no one will object if I use the Forum to thank those who were responsible for an excellent John Donne Society conference. (And, incidentally, to pass on to our Canadian friends congratulations on their Olympic hockey victory.) I hope to send as many individual notes as I can, but here let me of...
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Doggerel About Donne
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Over a half century ago, when I was an undergraduate at Wesleyan U., in Connecticut, I published the following bit of doggerel in the campus literary magazine, The Cardinal. When Donne was young and oversexed,He paid no heed to what came next;But years went by and Donne went dry,And then we heard a dif...
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The Bait
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For a paper I am writing, in which I discuss "The Bait" -- could someone point me to sources discussing the issues of its dating? Much thanks, Chanita
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I look after the John Donne's seal which represents Christ upon an anchor.
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Good morning, I look after the John Donne's seal which represents Christ upon an anchor. It was drawn during the writing of Essays in Divinity, I think... Could someone help me to find it? I will be happy. Thanks a lot. Kind regards.
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additions to DigitalDonne
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User may be interested to know that the Westmoreland ms. of Donne's poetry (NY3, in Variorum lingo) recently went up on the DigitalDonne website. Check it out at http://DigitalDonne.tamu.edu We are also very near having the O'Flahertie ms. ready to go up; look for it shortly after Christmas.
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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 Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Any ideas or suggestions regarding the influence of Donne on Hopkins's poetry?
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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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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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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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Looking for one of Donne's correspondents
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Hello, I am cataloging a 17th-century dictionary onfce owned by I.A. Shapiro, whose John Donne collection now resides at the Texas A&M University Cushing Library. There's one niggly thing I'm trying to resolve--the author's name. The work is the Dictionarium harmonicum et plane novu...
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Dates of works
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Can anyone advise me as to the dates (or any rough estimates) as to when some of Donne's poems were written. In particular I would like to know about The Good Morrow and The Sun Rising. If you do not know exact dates, would anyone know if these poems were written before or after Donne met his wife, Ann More?...
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The Good Morrow
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I am an advanced higher english pupil studying for my exam and I require a little help with the technical desciption of Donne's work. The first stanza of The Good Morrow comprises of a ABBA quatrain followed by a rhyming triplet. Are the the questions of the quatrain rhetorical if they are answered by t...
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John Shawcross
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Dear Donneans, I dont know how many of you know this, but John Shawcross has been diagnosed with cancer of the tongue, lungs, and tonsils. He has had a very difficult two months: he was diagnosed at the time when he was moving from his house into a nice large apartment in a community which also has suppor...
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Donne's religous beliefs and the Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
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Hello! I am an undergraduate writing a research paper that discusses how Donne's personal religious beliefs may have influenced his Devotions. If anyone has any suggestions for sources I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!
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I.A. Richards
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I.A. Richards As part of an ongoing research project on Cognitive Literary Studies and the Renaissance (with a particular interest in "The Bait"), I am interested in locating people who studied undergraduate or graduate poetry coures with I.A. Richards (most probably at Harvard. ...
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