John Donne

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Standard Name: Donne, John

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Textual Production Willa Muir
In her first novel, Imagined Corners, WM examined the repression and fragmentation of the self through two women who bear the same name but present opposing images of femininity.
Her title comes from John Donne
Textual Production Patricia Beer
PB published Driving West: Poems, whose contents balance the urban and rural; its title suggests Donne 's Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward, but the name this poem invokes is Henry Fielding , the lawyer on circuit.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1976
Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Phyllis Bottome
It was published by John Lane in London and by Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston and New York. Although PB had been interested in mental illness since childhood, the novel developed more directly from...
Textual Production Susan Hill
The new publishing firm of Sinclair-Stevenson issued SH 's first novel in seventeen years, besides The Woman in Black: it was entitled Air and Angels, after a poem by Donne .
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Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Hill, Susan. Mrs. de Winter. Sinclair-Stevenson.
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Textual Production P. D. James
PDJ returned to detective novels with The Skull beneath the Skin, bringing back her female detective Cordelia Gray after a nine-year absence.
The title comes from the second line of Eliot 's disturbing Whispers...
Textual Production Anne, Lady Southwell
Both are replies to writing by men: the certain Southwell ascription answers Donne 's Newes from the very Country, and the almost-certain one to Overbury 's own Newes from Court. Details in the...
Textual Production Rose Macaulay
RM published And No Man's Wit, a highly political novel set during the SpanishCivil War.
The title comes from a passage by John Donne , where he imagines catastrophic change, such as...
Textual Production Anne, Lady Southwell
ALS wrote two letters in 1623 from Castle Poulnelong to eminent men in support of property rights claimed by a male family friend. These letters are now at Chatsworth in Derbyshire. Two extended poems...
Textual Production Rose Macaulay
Writing about a wide range of authors from Caedmon to Coventry Patmore , she devotes a significant portion of the book to the seventeenth century, which held a great interest for her. The chapter Anglicans
Textual Production Emma Marshall
She returned to literature (though she may not have thought of it as such) with In the Service of Rachel, Lady Russell , A Story, 1893, and with Penshurst Castle in the time of...
Textual Production Gertrude Thimelby
GT exchanged original poetry with one of her Jesuit brothers-in-law, Edward Thimelby , who travelled secretly in England and who hoped to translate Donne into Italian.
Latz, Dorothy L., editor. “Neglected Writings by Recusant Women”. Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg.
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Constance Fowler 's poetry manuscript, which includes many...
Textual Production Edna St Vincent Millay
The number of sonnets in the end was fifty-two. The book was dedicated to Elinor Wylie .
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
330, 332
Its title comes from Donne (By our first strange and fatal interview); it replaced...
Textual Features Ephelia
Among the poems of praise, To Madam Bhen [sic] (then a not uncommon rendering of Behn) adapts from Cowley 's famous praise of Philips the idea of uniting the Strong and Sweet.
Ephelia,. Female Poems on Several Occasions. James Courtney.
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Textual Features Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
The poem The Witch in the Wardrobe, as ENC explained to Colette Bryce , comes in part from the The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis , in which a...
Textual Features Christine Brooke-Rose
A study of the ways in which metaphor functions grammatically, this text analyses a range of works by writers including Chaucer , Donne , Yeats , and Eliot : all but Chaucer were added since...

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c.1590-1601: John Donne composed the famous lyrics which...

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c.1590-1601

John Donne composed the famous lyrics which were posthumously published and later known as Songs and Sonnets.

30 April 1615: John Donne preached To the Queen at Greenwich,...

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30 April 1615

John Donne preached To the Queen at Greenwich, his earliest surviving sermon.

12 February 1631: Six weeks before his own death, John Donne...

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12 February 1631

Six weeks before his own death, John Donne preached his sermon later printed as Death's Duell.

1633: John Donne's Poems were posthumously published...

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1633

John Donne 's Poems were posthumously published with his initials.

19 February 1640: LXXX Sermons by John Donne was posthumously...

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19 February 1640

LXXX Sermons by John Donne was posthumously published; it included the earliest printed text of Izaak Walton 's biography of him.

2 February 1651: The second of Izaak Walton's biographies...

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2 February 1651

The second of Izaak Walton 's biographies appeared, that of Sir Henry Wotton , as preface to a volume entitled Reliquiae Wottonianae.

19 June 1725: Dorothy Stanley, née Milborne, published...

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19 June 1725

Dorothy Stanley , née Milborne, published by subscription Sir Philip Sidney 's Arcadia Moderniz'd, in four books (coinciding with the thirteenth edition of the original romance).
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

16 July 1945: The world's first detonation of an atomic...

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16 July 1945

The world's first detonation of an atomic bomb took place at the Trinity Site at Alamogordo: in the desert outside Los Alamos, New Mexico.

May 2009: The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry...

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May 2009

The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry is for everyone in a series launched this month: it succeeded in that sales of poetry soared in Britain.

October 2014: Forty years after it had become one of the...

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October 2014

Forty years after it had become one of the first five Oxford men's colleges to admit women, Hertford College marked the occasion by replacing its dining-hall portraits of male eminences with striking black-and-white photographs of...

Texts

Donne, John. “Chronological Table”. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, edited by John Davy Hayward, Nonesuch Library, 1955, p. xi - xii.
Donne, John. The Complete English Poems of John Donne. Editor Patrides, Constantinos A., J. M. Dent, 1985.