The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394604404 (0394604407)
Publish date: 1952
Publisher: Modern Library
Pages no: 594
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Classic Literature,
Religion,
Philosophy,
Poetry,
Theology
I'd read some poems by Donne before, but it's amazing reading all his collected poems and being able to appreciate how consistently good they are--at least the sonnets and elegies which stand up being compared to those of Shakespeare. They're erudite, but accessible, although the edition I read didn...
A hard but rewarding slog, I focused mostly songs and sonnets for my creative writing class. It's interesting the disparate interpretations we came out with, The Flea seemed blatantly obvious to me but others interpreted in a different way. Go and catch a falling star was my hands down favourite, an...