CRITICISM

Correll, Barbara. “Chiasmus and Commodification: Crossing Tropes and Conditions in Donne's Elegy 11, ‘The Bracelet.’” Exemplaria 11, no. 1 (1999): 141-65.

Examines metaphors of economics and commodification in Donne's poems “The Bracelet,” “Of Weeping,” “The Canonization,” “Elegie X: The Dream,” and several other poems to illustrate Donne's “erotic economy.”

Harland, Paul W. “Donne and Virginia: The Ideology of Conquest.” John Donne Journal: Studies in the Age of Donne 18 (1999): 127-52.

Examines the ideology of conquest in Donne's Sermons.

Lazo, Rodrigo. “In Search of El Dorado: Desire and History in Donne's Language of Colonization.” Exemplaria 8, no. 1 (1996): 269-86.

Lacanian reading of Donne that focuses on desire and tropes of colonization.

Roebuck, Graham. “Into the Shadows … : Donne's ‘Farewell to Love.’” John Donne Journal: Studies in the Age of Donne 18 (1999): 215-27.

Detailed reading of Donne's “Farewell to Love.”

Rude, Donald W. “John Donne in The Female Tatler: A Forgotten Eighteenth-Century Appreciation.” John Donne Journal: Studies in the Age of Donne 18 (1999): 153-66.

Cites examples of eighteenth-century female reaction to “The Extasie” and “The Anniversarie” in the popular press.

Sanchez, Reuben. “Menippean Satire and Competing Prose Styles in Ignatius His Conclave.” John Donne Journal: Studies in the Age of Donne. 18 (1999): 83-99.

Study of satire in Ignatius His Conclave.

Shawcross, John T. “Additional Donne and Herbert Allusions.” John Donne Journal: Studies in the Age of Donne 18 (1999): 167-76.

Comparison between Donne and George Herbert in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature.

Singer, Daniella E. “Despair and Subjectivity in the Erotic Verse of Sidney and of Donne.” Neophilologus 80, no. 3 (July 1996): 493-500.

Compares Phillip Sidney's “Astrophil and Stella” with Donne's Elegies.

Todd, Richard. “‘Farewell to Love’: ‘Things’ as Artifacts, ‘thing[s]’ as Shifting Signifiers.” John Donne Journal: Studies in the Age of Donne 18 (1999): 229–41.

Examines some textual difficulties in and suggests multiple readings of Donne's “Farewell to Love.”

Additional coverage of Donne's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: British Writers, Vol. 1; Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, Before 1660; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 121, 151; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British Edition; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-studied Authors, and Poets; Exploring Poetry; Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vols. 10, 24; Literature Resource Center; Poetry Criticism, Vol. 1; Poetry for Students, Vols. 2, 11; Poets: American and British; Reference Guide to English Literature; World Literature Criticism; World Literature and Its Times, Vol. 3; and World Poets.