Donne’s Reputation
Sarah Wintle, 20 November 1980
English Renaissance Studies
edited by John Carey.
Oxford, 320 pp., £15, March 1980,0 19 812093 1 Show More
edited by John Carey.
Oxford, 320 pp., £15, March 1980,
“... John Donne, and was seized upon by a readership anxious to stress the degeneracy of their own age. David Jones, an autochthonous Welsh, rather than Anglo-American, modernist of Poundian tendencies, offers another poet’s version of Johnson’s aperçu in his preface to the Anathemata (1952), and claims the Metaphysicals for ... ”