Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Donne’s life: a sketch
- 2 The text of Donne’s writings
- 3 The social context and nature of Donne’s writing: occasional verse and letters
- 4 Literary contexts: predecessors and contemporaries
- 5 Donne’s religious world
- 6 Donne’s political world
- 7 Reading and rereading Donne’s poetry
- 8 Satirical writing: Donne in shadows
- 9 Erotic poetry
- 10 Devotional writing
- 11 Donne as preacher
- 12 Donne’s language: the conditions of communication
- 13 Gender matters: the women in Donne’s poems
- 14 Facing death
- 15 Donne’s afterlife
- 16 Feeling thought: Donne and the embodied mind
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Series List
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2006
- Frontmatter
- 1 Donne’s life: a sketch
- 2 The text of Donne’s writings
- 3 The social context and nature of Donne’s writing: occasional verse and letters
- 4 Literary contexts: predecessors and contemporaries
- 5 Donne’s religious world
- 6 Donne’s political world
- 7 Reading and rereading Donne’s poetry
- 8 Satirical writing: Donne in shadows
- 9 Erotic poetry
- 10 Devotional writing
- 11 Donne as preacher
- 12 Donne’s language: the conditions of communication
- 13 Gender matters: the women in Donne’s poems
- 14 Facing death
- 15 Donne’s afterlife
- 16 Feeling thought: Donne and the embodied mind
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Series List
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- The Cambridge Companion to John Donne , pp. i - xviiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006