BIOGRAPHIES

Flynn, Dennis. John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995, 245 p.

Emphasizes Donne's family and personal connections to English Catholic figures and history.

Siemens, R. G. “‘I have often such a sickly inclination’: Biography and the Critical Interpretation of Donne's Suicide Tract, Biathanatos.” Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue 7 (May 2001). URL: http//purl.oclc.org/emls/si-07/siemens.htm

Discusses Donne's melancholy and the extent to which Biathanatos might be considered autobiographical.

CRITICISM

Blissett, William F. “‘The strangest pageant, fashion'd like a court’: John Donne and Ben Jonson to 1600—Parallel Lives.” Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue 7 (May 2001). URL: http//purl.oclc.org/emls/si-07/blissett.htm

Compares the lives and careers of Jonson and Donne, including their assessments of each others' work and their status at court.

Bridge, G. Richmond. “Trumpet Vibrations: Theological Reflections on Donne's Doomsday Sonnet.” Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue 7 (May 2001). URL: http//purl.oclc.org/emls/si-07/bridge.htm

Reads this pre-ordination sonnet in light of Donne's supposed struggle with his calling to the priesthood.

Donaldson, Ian. “Perishing and Surviving: The Poetry of Donne and Jonson.” Essays in Criticism 51, No. 1 (January 2001): 68-85.

Contends that the poetry of Donne and Jonson has more in common than is usually acknowledged.

Kneidel, Gregory. “John Donne's Via Pauli.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 100, no. 2 (April 2001): 224-46.

Contends that Donne's sermons on the conversion of Paul from Judaism to Christianity reflect Donne's own views about the true church and the best path the for English church.

Nutt, Joe. John Donne: The Poems. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, 211 p.

Introductory study of the main themes and characteristic style of Donne's major poetry.

Pebworth, Ted-Larry. “John Donne's ‘Lamentations’ and Christopher Featherstone's Lamentations … in prose and meter (1587).” Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue 7 (May 2001). URL: http//purl.oclc.org/emls/si-07/pebworth.htm

Sheds light on the problem of editing Donne's “Lamentations of Jeremy”; also discusses evidence for dating the work.

Raman, Shankar. “Can't Buy Me Love: Money, Gender, and Colonialism in Donne's Erotic Verse.” Criticism 43, no. 2 (spring 2001): 135-68.

Examines the theme of valuation and currency in Donne's elegies in order to better understand the relationship between gender and colonialism.

Roth-Schwartz, Emma L. “Colon and Semi-Colon in Donne's Prose Letters: Practice and Principle.” Early Modern Literary Studies 3, No. 1 (1997). URL: http//purl.oclc.org/emls/si-03/rothdonn.html

Relies on Donne's letters to suggest a punctuation practice for editing Donne's manuscripts.

Sprafkin, Alyson. “Language Strategy and Scrutiny in the Judicial Opinion and the Poem.” Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 2 (Fall 2001): 271-98.

Compares Donne's “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo's opinion in Palko v. Connecticut as examples of language used to guide the reader.

Sullivan, Ernest W. II The Influence of John Donne: His Uncollected Seventeenth-Century Printed Verse. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993, 215 p.

Argues that the large body of Donne poems circulating during the seventeenth century—those previously uncollected and unstudied—demonstrate the poet's tremendous influence on the popular culture of his era as well as on the poetry of continental Europe.

Summers, Claude J. “W[illiam] S[hakespeare]'s A Funeral Elegy and the Donnean Moment.” Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue 7 (May 2001). URL: http//purl.oclc.org/emls/si-07/summers.htm

Discusses Donne's transformation of the elegy while arguing that the author of W.S.'s Funeral Elegy rejected Donne's path.

Additional coverage of Donne's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: British Writers, Vol. 1; British Writers Retrospective Supplement, Vol. 2; Discovering Authors; Discovering Authors: British; Discovering Authors: Canadian Edition; Discovering Authors Modules: MST, POET; Exploring Poetry; Literature Criticism From 1400-1800, Vols. 10, 24; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 121, 151; Poets: American and British; Poetry Criticism, Vol. 1; Poetry for Students, Vols. 2, 11; Reference Guide to English Literature, Ed. 2; World Literature Criticism; World Literature and Its Times, Vol. 3; World Poets.