ESSAY on Donne for the 2002 agreg externe : "Exaltation
de la poésie et Poésie de l'exaltation " - a splendid chiasmus...
! F.L.
Agreg interne 2003 PROGRAMME OFFICIEL
- extrait:
2. John Donne. Choix de poèmes dans "The Complete English Poems"
(1633), Penguin Classics, þd. A. J. Smith (1996) :
Songs and Sonnets (pp.41-92) ;
Elegies :
Elegy 5 "His Picture", pp. 100-101,
Elegy 9 "The Autumnal", pp.105-106,
Elegy 16 "On His Mistress", pp.118-119,
Elegy 19 "To his Mistress Going to Bed", pp.124-126 ;
Satires :
Satire 3 ("Kind pity chokes my spleen") pp.161-164 ;
The Progress of the Soul (Metempsychosis), pp. 176-193 ;
The Anniversaries :
"An Anatomy of the World : The First Anniversary", pp.269-285
Divine Poems :
"Divine Meditations", pp. 309-317, "A Litany", pp. 317-325,
"A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's last going into Germany", pp.346-347,
"A Hymn to God my God, in my Sickness", pp.347-348
"A Hymn to God The Father", pp.348-349.
> Pour ceux qu'effraie ce poète venu d'ailleurs, lire en premier ses poèmes d'amour (Elegies), abordables, voire même agréables, voire même...! - Christine Minetto.
"calculated to perplex the minds of the fair sex with the nice speculations of philosophy" (Dryden).
Love and Sex in Donne
Donne to Dryden
Bibliomania's Historical Background (important Themes in Government and Politics
- 1603-88, in Religion - 1603-88, England and the World - 1603-88).
DONNE Sites :
Atlanta's Balls by Donnextatic admirer Darren Rigby.
Global-language.com
Longman - biography, critical overview, bibliography and links.
Poetry scanned in from 1601 edition:
Metempsychosis
from 1631 edition:
Songs and Sonnets
Elegies
Epigrams
Epithalamia
Latin poems
from the 1624 edition:
Devotions
Encyclopedia Britannica article on Metaphysical Poetry.
A brief biographical sketch of Donne, full text of many a poems.
Metaphysical poetry .org
Luminarium
: Donne lu avec des accents diffþrents...
Essays/Donne
http://www2.wku.edu/~vanzekm/frames.htm
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Bibliography
- > Janv. 002 - le
Donne du cned avec Colin (fini Didier Erudit...) vient de paraître la couverture est maintenant bleue et rouge, il vaut autour de 15 euros. L'auteur, H. Suhamy, habituellement le spécialiste shakespearien. Fait le point sur les thèmes principaux, le style et la prosodie...
- Clair et 'basic', m'a t il semblé, mais la signature Suhamyenne en soit est en soi une garantie de sérieux... FB.
- Carey, John. John Donne: Life, mind and Art. London Faber, 1981 (recommandþ).
- Recueils d'articles critiques: Gardner, Helen, John Donne: A selection of critical essays. Englewood Cliffs, Spectrum, 1962,1986.
- Lovelock, Julian, Donne: Songs and Sonnets. London, Macmillan, 1973.
- Partridge, A.C. John Donne: Language and Style. London: Deutsch, 1978.
Metaphysical Poetry
The Collected Poems - Study Guide
Characteristics
of Metaphysical Poetry.
Metaphysical poetry, in the full sense of the term, as Grierson writes, is a poetry which has been inspired by a philosophical conception of the universe and the role assigned to the human spirit in the great drama of existence.
Grierson's
introduction to Metaphysical poetry
in Herbert J.C. Grierson, ed. (1886É1960),
Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C.
Read Donne online with notes
Metaphysical and Cavalier Poets, contrasts, style...
'Both rebeled against
pictorial fluidity, decorative
rhetorical patterns, and half-medieval idealism...'
The Poetry Archives
- the Donne page, 35 odd poems of his online.
There is supposed to be discussion and interpretation apparently, but that hasn't been done yet, if ever...
Historical context : important issues for the Renaissance.
Metaphysical Poetry: Definition
Neo-Platonism and Platonic love, History.
Donne and Herbert
analysis and discussion of Metaphysical poetry.
In depth metaphysical Poetry
A standard device of Metaphysical poetry -
a paradoxical conceit
worked out so that it makes sense in some unexpected way...
T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
evokes the metaphysical poetry of John Donne.
Makings of Literature in English: The Sonnet Tradition
Donne Sonnets
extrait : Examine the stresses
in the following line from "Oh my black Soule! now thou art summoned", a poem in iambic pentameter by John Donne
'Oh make thy
selfe with holy mourning
blacke'
This clearly illustrates the way the stresses alternate on the line... Donne had a clear purpose every time he broke the rules of strict sonnet form...
"The distinguished mark of Metaphysical poetry, as initiated by Donne, was its
use of imagery not obviously
connected with the immediate subject
of the poem ; this imagery might be drawn from any sphere of interest, familiar and domestic on the one hand, remote and scientific on the other." -James Reeves, A short history of English poetry.
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