附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-110).
Biography of John Donne -- General introduction to Songs and Sonnets -- Thematic analysis of "The good morrow" -- Thematic analysis of "The sunne rising" -- Thematic analysis of "Song" -- Critical views on "The good morrow," "Song," and "The sunne rising": Rodney Edgecomb on "The sunne rising" and King Lear -- Alfred W. Satterthwaite on the seven sleepers -- Misako Himuro on the seven sleepers -- D.C. Allen on the history of the mandrake root -- James S. Baumlin on the sun's paradoxical nature -- Clay Hunt on "The sunne rising" and "The canonization" -- John Carey on Donne's response to court life in "The sunne rising" -- Donald L. Guss on the Renaissance theory of love -- Thematic analysis of "Love's alchymie" -- Thematic analysis of "The anniversarie" -- Thematic analysis of "The ecstasie" -- Critical views on "Love's alchymie," "The anniversarie," and "The ecstasie" -- N.J.C. Andreasen on love's grim nature in "Love's alchymie" -- Clay Hunt on the debate between body and soul -- Arthur F. Marotti on the rejection of courtly love in "Love's alchymie" -- N.J.C. Andreasen on ideal love in "The anniversarie" -- Arthur F. Marotti on comic elements in "The anniversarie" -- John Carey on the landscape of "The anniversarie" -- Dwight Cathcart on the status of truth in "The extasie" [sic] -- James S. Baumlin on the union of body and soul -- Helen B. Brooks on exemplary love -- Thematic analysis of "A valediction forbidding mourning" -- Thematic analysis of "The canonization" -- Thematic analysis of "A hymn to God the Father" -- Critical views on "A valediction forbidding mourning," "The canonization," and "A hymn to God the Father": Jay Dean Divine on the symbolic importance of the compass -- A.B. Chambers on glorified bodies and the "Valediction" -- John Freccero on the circle of love -- Allen Tate on movement in the "Valediction" -- Maurine Sabine on the autobiographical aspects of "The canonization" -- Dayton Haskin on biographical interpretation -- Cleanth Brooks o
摘要:A brief profile of the poet is accompanied by excerpts from critical essays about twelve of his major poems.