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Donne critics & contexts
- Contemporary critics
- John Dryden
- "perplexes the mind of the
fair sex with nice speculations
of philosophy ... when he
should ... entertain them with
the softness of love"
- "perplexes the mind of the
fair sex with nice speculations
of philosophy ... when he
should ... entertain them with
the softness of love"
- Ben Johnson
- "for not being understood would
perish"
- "for not being understood would
perish"
- Samuel Johnson
- "heterogeneous ideas ... yoked
by violence together"
- "heterogeneous ideas ... yoked
by violence together"
- John Dryden
- 19th century critics
- Henry Hallam
- "the conceits have not even the merit
of being intelligible"
- "the conceits have not even the merit
of being intelligible"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- "where the writer thinks, and
expects the reader to do so"
- "where the writer thinks, and
expects the reader to do so"
- Henry Hallam
- 20th century critics
- C S Lewis
- "Its complexity is all on the
surface"
- "Its complexity is all on the
surface"
- C S Lewis
- Donne's religion
- John Carey
- "perpetual worry about fidelity
and falseness"
- Someone who has changed loyalties becomes
nervous of the capacity of other people to change
their minds.
- Someone who has changed loyalties becomes
nervous of the capacity of other people to change
their minds.
- "perpetual worry about fidelity
and falseness"
- Clergyman who attempted to
strike a balance between his
Catholic heritage and reformers
- Catholic imagery in 'The Canonisation'
- Endorsing a Catholic understanding of
the world
- Catholic imagery in 'The Canonisation'
- John Carey
- Politics and kingship
- 'Divine Right of Kings'
- Chain of being and the natural order
- Undermined by political thinkers
such as Machiavelli in 'The Prince'
- Threatened by emergence of Capitalism
- Undermined by political thinkers
such as Machiavelli in 'The Prince'
- 'Divine Right of Kings'
- Discovery of new worlds and maps
- Elizabethan voyages of dicovery
- Christopher Columbus
- Christopher Columbus
- Elizabethan voyages of dicovery
- War
- Spanish Armada 1588
- Was a permanent background threat to
everyday life
- Spanish Armada 1588
- Petrarch
- Italian love poet who established several
conventions for Elizabethan love poetry
whom Donne's poetry challenges
- Non-romantic imagery in 'The Flea'
- Removed from the remote, chaste heroine
of courtly love
- Non-romantic imagery in 'The Flea'
- Italian love poet who established several
conventions for Elizabethan love poetry
whom Donne's poetry challenges
- Death
- Elizabethan age obsessed with death
- Pervades much of Donne's work
- Pervades much of Donne's work
- Elizabethan age obsessed with death
- Capitalism
- Seen as first true Capitalist age
- Cardinal Wolsey, son of a butcher
who rose to an extremely influential
position
- Formation of the East India Company in 1600
- Cardinal Wolsey, son of a butcher
who rose to an extremely influential
position
- Seen as first true Capitalist age
- Readership
- Strong oral tradition in literature
- Addressed to an exclusive private
audience
- Trusted readers
- His lover
- Other respected poets
- Valued patrons
- Close friends
- Male wits
- God
- His lover
- Plays and printed books were subject to censorship
- Donne could only write openly
about sex, morality, religion and
politics by limiting exposure of his
work
- Donne could only write openly
about sex, morality, religion and
politics by limiting exposure of his
work
- Trusted readers
- Strong oral tradition in literature
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