Donne, John - Shankar Raman (essay date spring 2001)
Shankar Raman (essay date spring 2001)
SOURCE: Raman, Shankar. “Can't Buy Me Love: Money, Gender, and Colonialism in Donne's Erotic Verse.”1 Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 43, no. 2 (spring 2001): 135-68.
[In the following essay, Raman analyzes s Donne's complex use of money, gender, and colonialist discourse in three erotic poems—“Loves Progress,” “Going to Bed,” and “The Bracelet.”]
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Suppressed by the licenser from the 1633 printed text of John Donne's poetry, the elegy “Loves Progress” seems also to have escaped sustained critical discussion, despite the twentieth-century revival of Donne studies. The comparative neglect does not, I think, derive simply from its being an “outrageous poem,”2 but from a sense that the poem is perhaps too transparent. In the related—and much examined—elegy, “Going to Bed,” an intricate and provocative equation of...
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