Author: Frank J. WarnkePublisher: Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A critical study of the English poet's lyric poetry, his prose "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions," and "Sermons."
John Donne (EAS)
Author: Frank J. WarnkePublisher: Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A critical study of the English poet's lyric poetry, his prose "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions," and "Sermons."
The Love Poems of John Donne
Author: Charles Eliot NortonPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5875637366
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
John Donne
Author: John StubbsPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393062601
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
A portrait of the life and work of the English poet places his achievements against a backdrop of a rapidly transforming world and offers insight into how his writings reflect such subjects as his crises of desire and devotion, and the outbreak of plague.
The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne
Author: John DonneWit
Author: Margaret EdsonPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466871830
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award. Adapted to an Emmy Award-winning television movie, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. Margaret Edson's powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize–winning play examines what makes life worth living through her exploration of one of existence's unifying experiences—mortality—while she also probes the vital importance of human relationships. What we as her audience take away from this remarkable drama is a keener sense that, while death is real and unavoidable, our lives are ours to cherish or throw away—a lesson that can be both uplifting and redemptive. As the playwright herself puts it, "The play is not about doctors or even about cancer. It's about kindness, but it shows arrogance. It's about compassion, but it shows insensitivity." In Wit, Edson delves into timeless questions with no final answers: How should we live our lives knowing that we will die? Is the way we live our lives and interact with others more important than what we achieve materially, professionally, or intellectually? How does language figure into our lives? Can science and art help us conquer death, or our fear of it? What will seem most important to each of us about life as that life comes to an end? The immediacy of the presentation, and the clarity and elegance of Edson's writing, make this sophisticated, multilayered play accessible to almost any interested reader. As the play begins, Vivian Bearing, a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the intricate, difficult Holy Sonnets of the seventeenth-century poet John Donne, is diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. Confident of her ability to stay in control of events, she brings to her illness the same intensely rational and painstakingly methodical approach that has guided her stellar academic career. But as her disease and its excruciatingly painful treatment inexorably progress, she begins to question the single-minded values and standards that have always directed her, finally coming to understand the aspects of life that make it truly worth living.
John Donne (EAS)
Author: Frank J. WarnkePublisher: Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A critical study of the English poet's lyric poetry, his prose "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions," and "Sermons."
Ikkyū Sōjun
Author: 一休The Works of John Donne
Author: John DonneThe Life of John Donne ...
Author: Izaak WaltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Author: John Milton