The John Donne Society Forum

Chanita Goodblatt

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

Gary Stringer

We've now got the O'Flahertie ms. mounted on the DigitalDonne site. Take a look. The images are really nice. GAS

gary stringer

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...

Anita Sherman

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...

Anthony

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.)

Allen Alain Viguier

"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...

Anonymous

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.

Alana Thompson

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...

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...

Anonymous

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...

Paul Parrish

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...

Robert Forrey

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...

Gary Stringer

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.

Greg Kneidel

Dear John Donne Socializers, I’m teaching a 16th-century graduate class this fall and will have two classes on Donne, one on the love poetry and one on the satires. I’m in the practice of assigning a secondary reading for each class—usually what I take to be an important or innovative or represen...

Thomas Tseng

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

Rosalind Levin

Any ideas or suggestions regarding the influence of Donne on Hopkins's poetry?

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.

Anne coe

I understand that phsyicist Robert Oppenheimer named the first atomic bomb test TRINITY after a poem by John Donne. I can't find a reference to a poem named TRINITY. Apparently, it was about a God that gives and takes away. A God of peace and one of thunder. Does anyone have a good guess what this poem wou...

Emma Speers

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?...

Chanita Goodblatt

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. ...

Anonymous

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...

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...

Susan Dykstra

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...

Kaci White

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!

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

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Ron Solomon

Can anyone please tell me where in Thomas De Quincey's writings he 'warmly praised' The Progress of the Soul' valron1@aapt.net.au

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...

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...

Susan Petrie

Do you know of any John Donne references that interprets The Bait as the courtship between John and Anne (More) Donne?

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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	The Bait (Preview) 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	Chanita Goodblatt	1	2937	Tue Aug 31 1:18 AM, 2010 by Raymond Edgar
	a further addition to DigitalDonne (Preview) We've now got the O'Flahertie ms. mounted on the DigitalDonne site. Take a look. The images are really nice. GAS	Gary Stringer	1	3175	Tue Aug 31 12:56 AM, 2010 by Raymond Edgar
	Kate Frost's obituary from the UT English Dept. website (Preview) 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...	gary stringer	0	3448	Wed Aug 18 6:39 PM, 2010 by gary stringer
	interpreting Sermon 1.9.308 (Preview) 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...	Anita Sherman	0	2529	Wed Aug 18 1:48 PM, 2010 by Anita Sherman
	Donne and Bacon (Preview) 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.)	Anthony	1	2777	Thu Aug 12 2:50 PM, 2010 by Anthony J. Funari
	Quotation Identification (Preview) "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...	Allen Alain Viguier	0	3085	Sat Aug 7 4:29 PM, 2010 by Allen Alain Viguier
	I look after the John Donne's seal which represents Christ upon an anchor. (Preview) 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.	Anonymous	5	5491	Wed Jul 21 1:11 AM, 2010 by Anonymous
	Looking for a text.. (Preview) 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...	Alana Thompson	0	2526	Fri Jul 9 1:49 PM, 2010 by Alana Thompson
	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
	Looking for one of Donne's correspondents (Preview) 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...	Anonymous	2	3945	Tue Apr 13 7:00 AM, 2010 by Vladimir Makarov
	JDS Conference 2010 (Preview) 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...	Paul Parrish	0	3359	Mon Mar 1 10:53 AM, 2010 by Paul Parrish
	Doggerel About Donne (Preview) 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...	Robert Forrey	0	2725	Thu Feb 4 1:51 PM, 2010 by Robert Forrey
	additions to DigitalDonne (Preview) 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.	Gary Stringer	0	3169	Sat Dec 12 8:08 AM, 2009 by Gary Stringer
	Best Essay on Love Poetry/Satires (Preview) Dear John Donne Socializers, I’m teaching a 16th-century graduate class this fall and will have two classes on Donne, one on the love poetry and one on the satires. I’m in the practice of assigning a secondary reading for each class—usually what I take to be an important or innovative or represen...	Greg Kneidel	8	5753	Wed Oct 21 9:39 PM, 2009 by ugg boots sale
	'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
	Donne and Gerard Manley Hopkins (Preview) Any ideas or suggestions regarding the influence of Donne on Hopkins's poetry?	Rosalind Levin	1	5022	Mon Jul 13 8:49 PM, 2009 by Anonymous
	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
	Donne and Robert Oppenheimer (Preview) I understand that phsyicist Robert Oppenheimer named the first atomic bomb test TRINITY after a poem by John Donne. I can't find a reference to a poem named TRINITY. Apparently, it was about a God that gives and takes away. A God of peace and one of thunder. Does anyone have a good guess what this poem wou...	Anne coe	8	6127	Thu May 7 8:39 AM, 2009 by Institute For Advanced Studys
	Dates of works (Preview) 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?...	Emma Speers	0	3734	Fri Jan 9 5:18 AM, 2009 by Emma Speers
	I.A. Richards (Preview) 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. ...	Chanita Goodblatt	1	3707	Fri Jan 2 2:39 AM, 2009 by craigastevenson@gmail.com
	The Good Morrow (Preview) 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...	Anonymous	0	3664	Fri Dec 26 1:00 PM, 2008 by Anonymous
	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
	John Shawcross (Preview) 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...	Susan Dykstra	0	5136	Mon Nov 17 1:58 PM, 2008 by Susan Dykstra
	Donne's religous beliefs and the Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (Preview) 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!	Kaci White	0	4175	Thu Oct 30 7:39 PM, 2008 by Kaci White
	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	2145	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	2528	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
	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	9886	Fri May 30 3:57 AM, 2008 by Fiornando Gabbrielli
	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
	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	2223	Sat Mar 15 2:09 AM, 2008 by Robert Guffey
	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	2050	Tue Mar 11 9:20 AM, 2008 by Anonymous
	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
	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	2568	Sun Feb 3 7:04 AM, 2008 by Siobhan Collins
	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
	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
	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
	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	2946	Sun Nov 4 11:11 AM, 2007 by Greg Kneidel
	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
	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
	The Progress of the Soul (Preview) Can anyone please tell me where in Thomas De Quincey's writings he 'warmly praised' The Progress of the Soul' valron1@aapt.net.au	Ron Solomon	3	2205	Wed Jul 18 10:11 AM, 2007 by Siobhan Collins
	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
	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
	The Bait (Preview) Do you know of any John Donne references that interprets The Bait as the courtship between John and Anne (More) Donne?	Susan Petrie	1	1816	Tue Mar 20 11:04 AM, 2007 by Unknown
	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
	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	2352	Tue Feb 20 12:49 PM, 2007 by Gary Stringer
	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
	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
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