英国作家简介之John Donne
• Donne’s poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses. The youthful love lyrics
were published after his death as Songs and Sonnets in 1633. His early poems were love
In his final years Donne's poems reflect an obsession with his own death, which came on March 31, 1631. John Donne is remembered for the wit and poignancy of his poetry.
of Abraham Cowley in the Lives of the English Poets that the metaphysical poets
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• They were named as the metaphysical school of poets by John Dryden and Dr. Johnson, not without a derogatory connotation.
• Samuel Johnson coined the term "metaphysical poets" to describe Donne and his poetic descendants when he wrote
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Metaphysical School
英国作家简介之John Donne
• Though there was no organized group of poets who imitated Donne, the influence of his poetic style was widely felt on George Herbert, Richard Crashow, Henry Vaughan, and A. Cowley.
• Revolt against Elizabethan love poetry and the tradition.
• Psychological analysis of emotions of love and Байду номын сангаасeligion.
• Penchant for novel and even shocking comparisons.
• Donne's first literary work,
satires was written during this
period . This was followed by Songs and Sonnets.
英国作家简介之John Donne
• Then in 1617 Anne Donne died in giving birth to the couple's 12th child. Her death affected Donne greatly, though he continued to write, notably Holy Sonnets (1618).
英国作家简介之John Donne
Metaphysical Poetry
英国作家简介之John Donne
• The term applies to a group of 17thcentury English poets who used certain common techniques and employed a few common themes.
• Metaphysical conceit --- extended metaphor.
• Metaphysical wit --- comparison of apparently quite dissimilar objects of concepts and the discovery that they are after all similar.
songs, elegies, and verse satires. • Donne’s later sacred verses, published in
1624 as Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
which show the intense interest Donne took in the spectacle of morality under the shadow of death, a vision that haunted him perpetually, and inspired the highest flights of his eloquence.
Features
• The diction is simple, and echoes the words and cadences of common speech.
John Donne
(1572-1631)
英国作家简介之John Donne
John Donne
• the leading figure of the metaphysical school
英国作家简介之John Donne
His Life
• John Donne was born to a prosperous London in 1572. His father died when he was young, and he was raised by his mother, Elizabeth.