John Donne, Body and Soul
Ramie Targoff
Abstract
For centuries readers have struggled to fuse the seemingly scattered pieces of John Donne's works into a complete image of the poet and priest. This book offers a way to read Donne as a writer who returned again and again to a single great subject, one that connected to his deepest intellectual and emotional concerns. Reappraising Donne's oeuvre in pursuit of the struggles and commitments that connect his most disparate works, the author shows that Donne believed throughout his life in the mutual necessity of body and soul. In chapters that range from his earliest letters to his final sermon, ... More
Keywords: John Donne, body, soul, final sermon, letters, natural union, poet, priest, writer, emotional concerns
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2008 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226789637 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: February 2013 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226789781.001.0001 |
