The John Donne Society Forum

Dennis Flynn

What happened? Looks like my forum may have disappeared for some reason. But I want to keep talking about Anne More. I think V & A P.26-1975 is a portrait of Anne More Donne. Check it out at the V & A website and let me know what you think. --DF

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...

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...

J. Cora

Dear all, I'm considering either buying a second-hand set of The Sermon's of John Donne (10 vols.) for my own personal use or getting my university library to acquire one. I have checked Abebooks and Alibris, but they only offer the odd single volume. Does any o...

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...

Julia Guernsey-Shaw

Hi everyone: I've been interested in starting a research project on Donne that would go further in applying Winnicottian object relations ideas to Donne's corpus than other critics I'm aware of (e.g. Nardo, Mintz) have done. I've written an essay that so far has not placed for pub...

greg kneidel

Not really, but close: "Love is indeed “ecstasy”, not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an ongoing exodus out of the closed inward-looking self towards its liberation through self-giving, and thus towards authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of G...

Colleen Gillis

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1604129,00.html#

Mark Allinson

The ashes of an Oak in the Chimney, are no Epitaph of that Oak, to tell me how high or how large that was; It tels me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what men it hurt when it fell. The dust of great persons’ graves is speechlesse too; it says nothing, it distinguishes nothing. As soon the dust...

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.)...

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...

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...

barry o'shea

has anyine got a copy of this and if so could they post it up here

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...

Sean McDowell

Greetings, everyone. During the past year, my department, in response to a recent program review, has substantially revised its curriculum. As part of that revision, we more carefully have defined the difference between 300- and 400-level courses. I’ll spare you all the gor...

Gary Stringer

I announced this at the Donne Conference a couple of weeks ago, but would like to note it here for those who weren't in Baton Rouge. Cushing Memorial Library here at Texas A&M University is sponsoring a Donne symposium next month--April 6 & 7--in conjunction with an exhibition of its newly acquired Do...

Kate Frost

I've been askedto give a talk next fall to a mixed audience of scholars (not necessarily of English lit or even of our period of interest) and blue-haired and bald lay persons on the subject of Donne studies as they burgeoned under the impetus of Eliot and as they supposedly gave way to interest in Milto...

Will Aust

Dear All, I am a 5th Year Architecture Student studying at the Welsh School of Architecture, UK. For my final design project I am hoping to design a 'John Donne Instuitue of Studies'. Part of the scheme will involve a permanent gallery exhibition. I was wondering, if donne's ma...

J. Cora.

Dear list members, I have published a new article on Donne's "To Sir Edward Herbert, at Julyers" as part of a volumen on the relations between writing and the visual published by Rodopi (see link below). In this article I interpret and discuss the verse letter as a mock laudatory poem on Lord H...

Peter McCullough

Does anyone know how to contact Peter Beal at present?

Susan Dykstra

An Arthurian academic friend of mine just went to see the new Tristan and Isolde film, in which Isolde reads a poem to Tristan written by John Donne!!! I haven't seen it yet, but I wonder which poem it is.

Mitch Harris

Dear All, I have just sent in a review for the Journal of Church and State (Baylor University) on Brent Nelson's Holy Ambition: Rhetoric, Courtship, and Devotion in the Sermons of John Donne. First and foremost, I want to congratulate Brent on writing such an excellent and thoro...

Chanita Goodblatt

Dear Colleagues, I am trying to locate a source in Augustine's Writings, quoted by John Donne in his sermon on Psalm 32:9 ("Be not as the Horse, or the Mule, who have no understanding"). Donne writes in his sermon: "And Saint Augustine carries these two qualities farre; He thinks that in this fi...

Eileen Abrahams

I am currently writing a dissertation, "A Burden of Sighs: Petrarchan Ambivalence in Donne's, Hopkins's, and Hill's (Self) Chastening Sonnets to God." Thus far, I am unable to find any conclusive evidence for whether Donne read Petrarch in the vernacular, in Latin, and/or in English. I do know tha...

nora

Hello, I am doing some work on Donne's "The Flea" and have been told that the poem may be influenced by flea poems that proliferated in the 16th century. Does anyone have more information about this topic -- or know if Donne's poem was influenced by a particular "flea" poem or trope explored in the w...

Jennifer Vaught

Please circulate to those who might be interested: Assistant Professor of English. Tenure-track position, beginning Fall 2006. Early Modern British Literature (1500-1660): Expertise in 17th century studies and Milton desirable; secondary field desirable as well. Duties: teaching undergr...

Helen Brooks

A university press in Melbourne, Australia, wrote to me asking if I know who wrote these lines? They were told the lines were written by John Donne, but they have not been able to locate the text. I have asked other Donne scholars about the lines, and the guesses range from George Herbert t...

J. Cora.

Another Donne tag that some of you may not know. I was surprised myself. This evening, I took a glimpse at a trailer of About a Boy (2002), starring Hugh Grant, based on the same-title novel by Nick Hornby, which is going to be on tonight. The trailer was dubbe...

Jameela Lares

"No man is an island" is alluded to in the title of a yearly children's lit conference. See at http://www.ncrcl.ac.uk/IBBY/ibby_flyer2005.htm. Cheers, Jameela

question mark

I've noticed that many posts which asked for help have been deleted and which don't really violate any of the forum ground rules. So why? I hope my post won't be murdered so soon. Fingers crossed......

J. Cora

Dear all, In her edition of the Divine Poems, Helen Gardner states that "La Corona" was written about 1610. Are there any recent articles or books that challenge this view? What's the Variorum progress on this issue? I have checked the MLA database for work on the question of the date of "La...

Gary Stringer

A philosopher friend asked me the other day for an explanation of the term "supply" in line 214 of The First Anniversary. I didn't have a good answer at my fingertips, and the Variorum doesn't list much here. Anyone have any ideas?

Dennis Flynn

http://images.vam.ac.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXSPFX_=summary%2Fb&submit-button=SUMMARY&_IXMAXHITS_=15&...

Mike Elliston

To all the members of the John Donne Society who were kind enough to offer Amanda and myself a great reception at this year's conference, thank you! If anybody is interested, or has the time, I'd really be very grateful for any feedback regarding the first draft of my play, Reinvention, which we pres...

Gary Stringer

Colleagues: Below I have pasted in a message sent to Mary Papazian from Holly Nelson, who is doing the YWES 2004 review of Donne studies. Prof. Nelson requests that we look this over and notify her of any items that she might have missed. Rather than have the information accumulate here, I'm going...

Gary Stringer

We would be pleased to accept suggestions as to other websites users would like to see linked on the page "Related Sites."

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	OK let's keep talking about Anne More (Preview) What happened? Looks like my forum may have disappeared for some reason. But I want to keep talking about Anne More. I think V & A P.26-1975 is a portrait of Anne More Donne. Check it out at the V & A website and let me know what you think. --DF	Dennis Flynn	10	2920	Sun Jan 14 4:35 AM, 2007 by Ring
	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	1895	Thu Jan 4 3:53 PM, 2007 by greg kneidel
	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	2080	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	3231	Tue Nov 21 5:35 AM, 2006 by Roberta Albrecht
	Any 2nd-hand Sermons in 10 vols. available? (Preview) Dear all, I'm considering either buying a second-hand set of The Sermon's of John Donne (10 vols.) for my own personal use or getting my university library to acquire one. I have checked Abebooks and Alibris, but they only offer the odd single volume. Does any o...	J. Cora	2	1947	Sun Oct 15 12:39 AM, 2006 by Willis Johnson
	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	3481	Mon Sep 25 1:00 PM, 2006 by Vladimir Makarov
	Is Psychoanalysis a Donne deal? (Preview) Hi everyone: I've been interested in starting a research project on Donne that would go further in applying Winnicottian object relations ideas to Donne's corpus than other critics I'm aware of (e.g. Nardo, Mintz) have done. I've written an essay that so far has not placed for pub...	Julia Guernsey-Shaw	28	6243	Thu Sep 7 2:43 AM, 2006 by Steven Summers
	The Pope quotes Donne (Preview) Not really, but close: "Love is indeed “ecstasy”, not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an ongoing exodus out of the closed inward-looking self towards its liberation through self-giving, and thus towards authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of G...	greg kneidel	1	1737	Tue Aug 22 4:06 AM, 2006 by marta
	"John Donne, 17-century Poet of Pop" (Preview) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1604129,00.html#	Colleen Gillis	9	3717	Fri Aug 11 3:22 PM, 2006 by c.g.
	A Sonnet found in a Sermon (Preview) The ashes of an Oak in the Chimney, are no Epitaph of that Oak, to tell me how high or how large that was; It tels me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what men it hurt when it fell. The dust of great persons’ graves is speechlesse too; it says nothing, it distinguishes nothing. As soon the dust...	Mark Allinson	2	3437	Sun Aug 6 4:35 PM, 2006 by mp3 ringtones
	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	2249	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	1743	Sun Jul 30 11:45 AM, 2006 by Dennis Flynn
	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	2327	Tue Jul 4 4:41 PM, 2006 by J. Cora.
	'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	2303	Mon Jul 3 1:31 AM, 2006 by SEONAID ABERNETHY
	john donne anne donne undone (Preview) has anyine got a copy of this and if so could they post it up here	barry o'shea	1	4168	Fri Jun 30 6:42 AM, 2006 by Dennis Flynn
	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	1716	Thu Jun 8 5:39 AM, 2006 by Eric Boagey
	"Donne and His Critics" (Preview) Greetings, everyone. During the past year, my department, in response to a recent program review, has substantially revised its curriculum. As part of that revision, we more carefully have defined the difference between 300- and 400-level courses. I’ll spare you all the gor...	Sean McDowell	0	2172	Fri Jun 2 5:23 PM, 2006 by Sean McDowell
	April Donne symposium at TAMU (Preview) I announced this at the Donne Conference a couple of weeks ago, but would like to note it here for those who weren't in Baton Rouge. Cushing Memorial Library here at Texas A&M University is sponsoring a Donne symposium next month--April 6 & 7--in conjunction with an exhibition of its newly acquired Do...	Gary Stringer	0	1713	Mon Feb 27 7:45 PM, 2006 by Gary Stringer
	Donne and Milton sort of (Preview) I've been askedto give a talk next fall to a mixed audience of scholars (not necessarily of English lit or even of our period of interest) and blue-haired and bald lay persons on the subject of Donne studies as they burgeoned under the impetus of Eliot and as they supposedly gave way to interest in Milto...	Kate Frost	0	1686	Mon Feb 13 10:39 PM, 2006 by Kate Frost
	Donne's Manuscripts (Preview) Dear All, I am a 5th Year Architecture Student studying at the Welsh School of Architecture, UK. For my final design project I am hoping to design a 'John Donne Instuitue of Studies'. Part of the scheme will involve a permanent gallery exhibition. I was wondering, if donne's ma...	Will Aust	4	2340	Tue Feb 7 12:10 PM, 2006 by Will Aust
	New article on &quot;To Sir Edward Herbert, at Julyers&quot; (Preview) Dear list members, I have published a new article on Donne's "To Sir Edward Herbert, at Julyers" as part of a volumen on the relations between writing and the visual published by Rodopi (see link below). In this article I interpret and discuss the verse letter as a mock laudatory poem on Lord H...	J. Cora.	0	3299	Sat Feb 4 10:49 AM, 2006 by J. Cora.
	Peter Beal? (Preview) Does anyone know how to contact Peter Beal at present?	Peter McCullough	5	2571	Fri Feb 3 3:34 AM, 2006 by S Davies
	Timelessness of Donne (Preview) An Arthurian academic friend of mine just went to see the new Tristan and Isolde film, in which Isolde reads a poem to Tristan written by John Donne!!! I haven't seen it yet, but I wonder which poem it is.	Susan Dykstra	1	1948	Mon Jan 30 9:38 AM, 2006 by Rachel Tomcsik
	New Book (Preview) Dear All, I have just sent in a review for the Journal of Church and State (Baylor University) on Brent Nelson's Holy Ambition: Rhetoric, Courtship, and Devotion in the Sermons of John Donne. First and foremost, I want to congratulate Brent on writing such an excellent and thoro...	Mitch Harris	0	1465	Thu Dec 15 10:58 AM, 2005 by Mitch Harris
	Donne and Augustine (Preview) Dear Colleagues, I am trying to locate a source in Augustine's Writings, quoted by John Donne in his sermon on Psalm 32:9 ("Be not as the Horse, or the Mule, who have no understanding"). Donne writes in his sermon: "And Saint Augustine carries these two qualities farre; He thinks that in this fi...	Chanita Goodblatt	3	1745	Thu Dec 15 10:51 AM, 2005 by Mitch Harris
	Donne's Petrarch (Preview) I am currently writing a dissertation, "A Burden of Sighs: Petrarchan Ambivalence in Donne's, Hopkins's, and Hill's (Self) Chastening Sonnets to God." Thus far, I am unable to find any conclusive evidence for whether Donne read Petrarch in the vernacular, in Latin, and/or in English. I do know tha...	Eileen Abrahams	6	5003	Fri Oct 28 10:07 PM, 2005 by Kate Frost
	donne, ovid, and petrarch (Preview) Hello, I am doing some work on Donne's "The Flea" and have been told that the poem may be influenced by flea poems that proliferated in the 16th century. Does anyone have more information about this topic -- or know if Donne's poem was influenced by a particular "flea" poem or trope explored in the w...	nora	2	5170	Fri Oct 7 11:46 AM, 2005 by J. Cora.
	tenure-track Renaissance position (Preview) Please circulate to those who might be interested: Assistant Professor of English. Tenure-track position, beginning Fall 2006. Early Modern British Literature (1500-1660): Expertise in 17th century studies and Milton desirable; secondary field desirable as well. Duties: teaching undergr...	Jennifer Vaught	0	1535	Fri Oct 7 9:16 AM, 2005 by Jennifer Vaught
	Who wrote these lihes? (Preview) A university press in Melbourne, Australia, wrote to me asking if I know who wrote these lines? They were told the lines were written by John Donne, but they have not been able to locate the text. I have asked other Donne scholars about the lines, and the guesses range from George Herbert t...	Helen Brooks	2	1520	Fri Sep 16 1:06 AM, 2005 by Helen Brooks
	Another Donne tag and film trivia (Preview) Another Donne tag that some of you may not know. I was surprised myself. This evening, I took a glimpse at a trailer of About a Boy (2002), starring Hugh Grant, based on the same-title novel by Nick Hornby, which is going to be on tonight. The trailer was dubbe...	J. Cora.	0	1409	Tue Sep 13 12:57 PM, 2005 by J. Cora.
	Yet another Donne tag (Preview) "No man is an island" is alluded to in the title of a yearly children's lit conference. See at http://www.ncrcl.ac.uk/IBBY/ibby_flyer2005.htm. Cheers, Jameela	Jameela Lares	0	1015	Sun Sep 11 5:41 AM, 2005 by Jameela Lares
	why posts deleted? (closed) (Preview) I've noticed that many posts which asked for help have been deleted and which don't really violate any of the forum ground rules. So why? I hope my post won't be murdered so soon. Fingers crossed......	question mark	1	1285	Thu Sep 8 12:43 PM, 2005 by Gary Stringer
	Date of "La Corona" (Preview) Dear all, In her edition of the Divine Poems, Helen Gardner states that "La Corona" was written about 1610. Are there any recent articles or books that challenge this view? What's the Variorum progress on this issue? I have checked the MLA database for work on the question of the date of "La...	J. Cora	0	1327	Thu Sep 8 11:26 AM, 2005 by J. Cora
	a gloss in the 1st Anniversary (Preview) A philosopher friend asked me the other day for an explanation of the term "supply" in line 214 of The First Anniversary. I didn't have a good answer at my fingertips, and the Variorum doesn't list much here. Anyone have any ideas?	Gary Stringer	3	1610	Tue Jun 21 6:00 AM, 2005 by Tom Hester
	OK let's talk about Anne More (Preview) http://images.vam.ac.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXSPFX_=summary%2Fb&submit-button=SUMMARY&_IXMAXHITS_=15&...	Dennis Flynn	25	5274	Fri Jun 17 10:31 AM, 2005 by Dennis Flynn
	John Donne Play First Draft (Preview) To all the members of the John Donne Society who were kind enough to offer Amanda and myself a great reception at this year's conference, thank you! If anybody is interested, or has the time, I'd really be very grateful for any feedback regarding the first draft of my play, Reinvention, which we pres...	Mike Elliston	0	1095	Wed Jun 8 1:56 PM, 2005 by Mike Elliston
	YWES 2004 (closed) (Preview) Colleagues: Below I have pasted in a message sent to Mary Papazian from Holly Nelson, who is doing the YWES 2004 review of Donne studies. Prof. Nelson requests that we look this over and notify her of any items that she might have missed. Rather than have the information accumulate here, I'm going...	Gary Stringer	0	2727	Mon Jun 6 3:42 PM, 2005 by Gary Stringer
	suggestions for other "related sites" (Preview) We would be pleased to accept suggestions as to other websites users would like to see linked on the page "Related Sites."	Gary Stringer	0	1191	Fri May 27 2:23 PM, 2005 by Gary Stringer
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