{"product_id":"john-donne-in-the-nineteenth-dayton-haskin-9780199212422","title":"John Donne in the Nineteenth Century","description":"In 1906, having been assigned Izaak Walton's \u003cem\u003eLife of Donne\u003c\/em\u003e to read for his English class, a Harvard freshman heard a lecture on the long disparaged \"metaphysical\" poets. Years later, when an appreciation of these poets was considered a consummate mark of a modernist sensibility, T. S. Eliot was routinely credited with having 'discovered' Donne himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eJohn Donne in the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/em\u003e tracks the myriad ways in which \"Donne\" was lodged in literary culture in the Romantic and Victorian periods. The early chapters document a first revival of interest when Walton's \u003cem\u003eLife\u003c\/em\u003e was said to be \"in the hands of every reader\"; they explore what Wordsworth and Coleridge contributed to the conditions for the 1839 publication of the only edition ever called \u003cem\u003eThe Works\u003c\/em\u003e, which reprinted the sermons of \"Dr Donne\". Later chapters trace a second revival, when admirers of the biography, turning to the prose letters and the poems to supplement Walton, discovered that his hero's writings entail the sorts of controversial issues that are raised by Browning, by the 'fleshly school' of poets, and by self-consciously \"decadent\" writers of the \u003cem\u003efin de siècle.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe final chapters treat the spread of the academic study of Donne from Harvard, where already in the 1880s he was the anchor of the seventeenth-century course, to other institutions and beyond the academy, showing that Donne's status as a writer eclipsed his importance as the subject of Walton's narrative, which Leslie Stephen facetiously called \"the masterpiece of English biography\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dayton Haskin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199212422\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199212422\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/02\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d","brand":"Dayton Haskin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47419019985151,"sku":"9780199212422","price":83.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a4353f12-22a6-46f7-aba4-203bdd3c5e24.jpg?v=1761508950","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/john-donne-in-the-nineteenth-dayton-haskin-9780199212422","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}