John Donne

It proclaims: this is the story of two people // this is the story of two peoples // and one God / your God or mine? In tracing the story to before the Act...

On the first page the protagonist in this very confusing story signs in to a hotel called the Black Swan under the name of Nelly Dean. She asks for a double room, saying she expects...

The novel's epigraph is the especially popular passage from John Donne 's Meditation 17 which begins No man is an Island. The epigraph illustrates the novel's critique of extreme individualism and selfishness embodied by Hetty.

The fact that Mary Sidney did not print the psalms, as she did her brother's poems, says something about her attitudes both to print and to her own ranked and gendered identity as an author...

In the opening chapter the narrator, a woman named Billie Crusoe, is making publicity announcements to a crowd of the inhabitants of Orbus about the newly-discovered Blue Planet, to which they will be encouraged to...

These poems reflect social life and perhaps the company of lawyers in the London of about 1720. Their author glories in her liberty—in several senses, but including freedom from the meaningless literary rules which...

KP 's poems range over every degree of a scale reaching from expressions of intense personal feeling to formal comment on public affairs. She wrote on the execution of Charles I , the Restoration of...

The scrappily emerging stories of how these men ended up in Guantanamo Bay are horrifying in their randomness and confusion. For an audience already familiar with the outlines, details still convey a shock, as when...

This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine

He describes her with a line from Donne 's Second Anniversary. EG 's range of reference here includes Rousseau , Milton , Frances Greville , and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . Characters discuss and...

The Southwell family had connections with the court and with London literary society. Anne Southwell's mother-in-law, Alice (née Cornwallis), who was a cousin of the essayist William Cornwallis , may have enabled Anne to meet...

The court decided in favour of the children, and Anne subsequently moved to London where she lived with her paternal grandmother, Bridget, Lady Kingsmill, for most of her childhood. Lady Kingsmill had been a friend...

Despite the eminent respectability of these friends, the unmarried CB acquired a reputation for promiscuity. Poems by Sir John Roe and Ben Jonson , and a letter from John Donne , make casual charges connecting...

Carrington began to alter herself in other ways also. During her first term at the Slade she began to go by her surname only. Excitement about her new surroundings and acquaintances prompted her to...

She lived in a King's College hostel in Queensborough Terrace near Hyde Park,London. The course included lectures on history and literature. The distinguished scholar Jack Isaacs lectured on Shakespeare , Donne , and Milton