John Donne
Man of Flesh and Spirit
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-8264-6776-8 (ISBN)
Description
Donne is best known as a poet of love, never describing physical beauty in detail yet brilliantly able to recreate a man's experience of love's emotions and realities, but he is much else besides. He is a poet of the spiritual journey who in his power speaks to others in travail, a great preacher who soars into word-music and encapsulates complex theology in illuminating epigrams. David Edwards ranges across all Donne's writings, including the critically neglected sermons, to produce a biography of this tortured and contradictory figure.
Reviews / Votes
"An immensely readable book about the poet and churchman, the son of a London merchant whose background was strongly influenced by Catholic recusancy but who, during studies at Oxford and the Inns of Court, was eventually drawn to the Church of England.... David Edwards is an experienced and gifted writer... his John Donne... a masterpiece could hardly be bettered. And one more accolade: Edwards is never dull but always interesting. And the wonder is that he's not a professional historian." --Yorkshire Post; "Edwards' picture of what Donne 'really was' is more convincing than most." --The Spectator (UK); "There is an engaging candour in Edwards' approach of a sort one would seldom find in a professional monograph." --The New StatesmanMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
12 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-6776-8 (9780826467768)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
David Edwards was formerly Fellow of All Soul's, Oxford and Dean of King's College, Cambridge
Content
Donne's life: the questions; "at the dore"; "winter-seeming"; "thou hast done". About Donne: "thou hast not done"; "deare honestie". Donne speaks: "Let my body raigne"; "Batter my heart"; "admyring her"; "the trumpet".