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Over a half century ago, when I was an undergraduate at Wesleyan U., in Connecticut, I published the following bit of doggerel in the campus literary magazine, The Cardinal. ... When Donne was young and oversexed,He paid no heed to what came next;But...

... For a paper I am writing, in which I discuss "The Bait" -- could someone point me to sources discussing the issues of its dating? ... ... Much thanks, Chanita...

Good morning, ... ... I look after the John Donne's seal which represents Christ upon an anchor. It was drawn during the writing of Essays in Divinity, I think... ... Could someone help me to find it? I will be happy. ... ... Thanks a lot....

User may be interested to know that the Westmoreland ms. of Donne's poetry (NY3, in Variorum lingo) recently went up on the DigitalDonne website. Check it out at http://DigitalDonne.tamu.edu ... ... We are also very near having the O'Flahertie ms. ...

Donne's Holy Sonnet 18 ("Show me, dear Christ. . .") displays his concern at the challenge of finding Christ's true denominational "spouse." I would appreciate being directed to other statements about this same problem as express...

Any ideas or suggestions regarding the influence of Donne on Hopkins's poetry?

Perhaps everyone agrees Loves exchange is based on the story of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. I find the poem very witty but some parts trouble me.

Please join other members of the Donne Society in posting remembrances, tributes, and celebrations of our late friend....

Hello everybody, I've been reading some of the threads and it sounds like you guys really know John Donne Poems. ... ... I would like some help in establishing his context in relation to his poems. At the moment, I have been having trouble findin...

Hello, ... ... I am cataloging a 17th-century dictionary onfce owned by I.A. Shapiro, whose John Donne collection now resides at the Texas A&M University Cushing Library. ... ... There's one niggly thing I'm trying to resolve--the author...

Can anyone advise me as to the dates (or any rough estimates) as to when some of Donne's poems were written. In particular I would like to know about The Good Morrow and The Sun Rising. If you do not know exact dates, would anyone k...

I am an advanced higher english pupil studying for my exam and I require a little help with the technical desciption of Donne's work. ... ... The first stanza of The Good Morrow comprises of a ABBA quatrain followed by a rhyming triplet. ... ... Ar...

... Dear Donneans, ... ... I dont kn...

Hello! I am an undergraduate writing a research paper that discusses how Donne's personal religious beliefs may have influenced his Devotions. If anyone has any suggestions for sources I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!...

I.A. Richards ... As part of an ongoing research project on Cognitive Literary Studies and the Renaissance (with a particular interest in "The Bait"), I am interested in locating people who studied undergraduate or graduat...

Dear Everybody, ... ... We've now got the 1669 Poems and the St. Paul's ms. up and running on DigitalDonne (http:DigitalDonne.tamu.edu). Let us know how you like it, and please report any problems or errors you encounter. ... ... Gary Str...

... I am starting a paper on Essays in Divinity and I thought this would be just the right place for my request: I am looking for any critical work (article, book chapter, bibliography, reference, etc., apart from E. M. Simpson's edition, w...

We are now circulating the final programme for this conference on 'Community and Conviviality in the Work of Robert Herrick and His Contemporaries' to be held in and near Herrick's parish of Dean Prior, Devonshire from 18th-20th July this year. It ca...

In his "Challenge Sermon" delivered at St. Pauls Cross on November 26, 1559, Bishop John Jewel argued that the Church Fathers were the true architects of the Christian religion and that the English people would no longer be subjected to the...

Dear all, ... ... Here are the latest settings of Donne's poems by Ketil Bjornstad. The album, The Light, has just been released. ... ... Thomas...

... ... Please help! Does anyone know which of Donne's sermons address any or all of the five points of Calvinism (Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, and the Perseverance of the Saints)? Your as...

I would appreciate any references Donne scholars could offer to passages, especially in Donne's sermons and prose but also in his poetry, where he uses architectural or other spatial metaphors for describing anything involving the ceremonialist contr...

Today is the 377th anniversary of Donne's death. Since we don't know the exact birth date, he never gets mentioned on Garrison Keillor's poet's corner thing on NPR. But today Garrison did read Marvell's "The Definition of Love."...

Learned Colleagues, My name is Gary Ettari and I teach Renaissance literature at UNC-Asheville. I'm currently teaching a special topics course entitled "Renaissance Bodies and Souls" and an interesting discussion occurred the other day. Af...

Hi, ... ... I am trying to trace a thesis or dissertation presented for the degree of M. Litt at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) entitled (something like) "Donne and Alchemy" and written by an "H Crothers". .....

Hi Everyone, ... ... Now that pitchers and catchers have begun injecting each other with HGH, it's time to sign up for fantasy baseball. I know you have a lot of fb options, but the Batter my heart (tm) JDS Fantasy...

This is to invite as many members of the Donne Society as possible to come to this conference on 'Community and Conviviality in the work of Robert Herrick and his contemporaries', to be held this summer near Herric...

I just got a welcome to the Donne Society mailing list. I am happy to be on it, but didn't request the subscription, so I am wondering if there is a new list that has been set up that I should happily welcome OR if I should delete the e-mail in case...

I can't get enough of this poem because, unlike a surprising (to me) number of people at the conference, I really like it. After Ray said it didn't work for him, a bunch of people agreed with him and offered the three stanzas beginning with "He...

... At the Donne Conference, Gary Stringer announced a need for volunteers to make Donne's texts accessible on-line. I am interested in helping make that happen, and would be interested in hearing from others who would like to participate. ... ......

My novel, Conceit, about Pegge, the daughter of John Donne, has just been published by Doubleday Canada and is available in the US through on-line bookstores like Amazon.com. It should be even easier to buy when it comes out in paperback in Canada in...

... Dear all, ... ... The following electronic conference may be of interest, and includes a paper I'm presenting on Donne: ... ... APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance/Early Modern Literature & Cultur...

... Dea all, ... ... Joan Baez paraphrases the famous passage and sets it to music.(http://www.tsrocks.com/j/joan_baez_texts/no_man_is_an_island.html) ... ... Besides, Robert Plan...

... Shalom y'all ... ... I was wondering if someone could help me regarding an explanation that Donne writes/preaches in his sermon on the Penitential Psalm 38:3: "our very Laws presume, that if he be alive, he will cry, and if he be not hear...

Hi. I'm a student at a Danish school and I wanted to hear if anyone on this board knows of any websites, books or the like where the author(s) discuss or analyze his works. ... ... I would be very thankful for any information you could provide me wi...

... I am a law student from Canada. I was introduced to Donne when I fell in love with a girl a year ago, until then I had never really indulged in poetry. I was wondering if there is a boo...

Dear All, ... As we prepare to apply for renewed NEH support for the Variorum, we'r...

Dear all, ... ... I am comparing reproductions of different instances of Donne's signature, especially on flyleaves of books that belonged to him, and I wonder what the ampersan...

The contemporary composer K. Lee Scott has composed a choral piece called Requiem that uses Donne texts. You can learn more about him, and about how to order a CD of Requiem here: ... ... http://www.kleescott.com/ ... ... I heard some of this on a ...

The John Donne Society welcomes papers for a sponsored session at the ICMS, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8-11, 2008. Please send hard copy of (300 word) abstract and cover sheet as per ICMS form (see links on congress web site ) by/before September 1...

My husband and I recently ordered the first season of the British TV show "Hex" through Netflix. A scene early in the opening episode features a classroom in which a group of insolent private school teens are listening to their teacher rea...

If your tastes run to folk/punk, check out the following URL: http://www.myspace.com/johndonnesongs ... Karl Kolbel (umlaut over the o, but I can't find a way to include that in this text editor), the musician who set these pieces and performs them,...

Hi to all, i would like you to know about a new italian site about John Donne's translations. I think it might be helpful for those of you who can understand both this two beautiful languages. The site is www.johndonne.org ... bye!...

Dear all, ... ... Ketil Bjornstad, Norwegian composer/pianist, has just finished recording his third Donne album, entitled The Light & Four Nordic Songs, which will be released ...

Can you send me Dunne's original version pls? ... ... padraeg@hotmail.com ...

CFP: Resurrecting the "First Five Hundred": The Fathers and Early Modern English Culture, 1500-1660 ... ... In his "Challenge Sermon" delivered at St. Pauls Cross on November 26, 1559, Bishop John Jewel argued that the English di...

Greetings one and all. ... ... Someone has posed a question to me, and I'm stumped. In Donne's "The Primrose," he walks "to find a true love." Now, I'm assuming he's not just wandering about on the hill, looking...

To his ingenious friend. R. A. ... ... Desert and praise are Twiins. The first being quicke, ... The second still is so; of if it die, ... Then is the first too sound, or else too sicke, ... And so may dye in grace, or Envies eye. ... But this wit...

We are pleased to announce that our new web site Digital Donne is up and running. This first installment includes a presentation of page images and transcriptions of the 1633 Poems, together with tools--such as a concordan...

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