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» "I haue often such a sickly inclination": Biography and the Critical Interpretation of Donne's Suicide Tract, Biathanatos
   R. G. Siemens suggests that the tract should be read "as a detached . . . examination of the moral implications of an action," rather than a reflection of Donne's state of mind.
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-07/siemens.htm

» "The strangest pageant, fashion'd like a court": John Donne and Ben Jonson to 1600 -- Parallel Lives
   William F. Blissett suggests that a Jonson reference to a "Dr. Done . . . encourages a consideration of the parallel literary lives of Jonson and Donne."
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-07/blissett.htm

» "Witness this Booke, (thy Emblem)": Donne's Holy Sonnets and Biography
   Diana Treviño Benet argues that the sonnets have been widely studied in terms of the poet's theology, but "their recourse to biography" deserves critical attention.
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-07/benet.htm

» Book Review
   Gary Kuchar reviews Ronald Corthell's Ideology and Desire in Renaissance Poetry: The Subject of Donne.
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/kuchrev.htm

» Book Reviews
   Elizabeth Hodgson reviews two books: John Donne. Pseudo-Martyr. Ed. Anthony Raspa; John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility, by Dennis Flynn.
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-1/rev_hod1.html

» Britten and Donne: Holy Sonnets Set to Music
   Bryan N. S. Gooch argues that the ordering of the Sonnets in Britten's Opus 35 reflects the composer's personal experience of visiting German concentration camps.
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-07/gooch.htm

» Cambridge History of English and American Literature
   Covers the period from Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton, which includes "Donne's Relation to Petrarch," "His Life," "Songs and Sonets," "Letters and Funerall Elegies," and "His Position and Influence."
   http://www.bartleby.com/214/

» Colon and Semi-Colon in Donne's Prose Letters: Practice and Principle
   Suggests that "Donne's colon and semicolon usage reveals several Donnean principles of punctuation." By Emma L. Roth-Schwartz.
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-1/rothdonn.html

» Donne, Herbert, and the Worm of Controversy
   By Louis Martz. Ecclesiastical dispute in the British Church as reflected in the works of Donne and Herbert.
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-07/martz.htm

» John Donne Journal
   Studies in the Age of Donne. Tables of contents through 1998.
   http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jdj/

» John Donne the Divine and Mundane
   Analyzes Donne's poetry in terms of his change in lifestyles throughout his career. By Yoshiko Fujito. [.PDF]
   http://www.kwansei.ac.jp/s_sociology/kiyou/87/87-ch11.pdf

» John Donne's "Lamentations" and Christopher Fetherstone's Lamentations . . . in prose and meeter (1587)
   Ted-Larry Pebworth argues that Donne engaged the 1587 edition of Fetherstone's "Lamentations" to translate the text into English.
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-07/pebworth.htm

» John Donne's Use of Space
   "Donne's spatial imagination: its cosmographic assumptions, and its many contradictions," by Lisa Gorton.
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-2/gortjohn.htm

» Love Poetry of John Donne
   An essay by Ian Mackean on the role of love in Donne's Songs and Sonnets.
   http://www.literature-study-online.com/essays/donne.html

» New Pleasures Prove: Evidence of Dialectical Disputatio in Early Modern Manuscript Culture
   Margaret Downs-Gamble examines Donne's poems in terms of the manuscript culture of the times.
   http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/emls/02-2/downdonn.html

» Paraphrase Used in a Review
   Excerpt from the Eric Griffiths review of William Empson's posthumous Essays on Renaissance Literature.
   http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/empson.donne.html

» Political and Social Criticism in "The Calme"
   Student essay by John DeStefano.
   http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/destefan.htm

» Selected Papers
   From the West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association. Book reviews and several articles on Donne and his works.
   http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1996.html

» The Metaphysical Sonnets of John Donne and Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski: A Comparison
   Magdalena Kay suggests that "Both poets work out their ideas through paradox and syntactic play."
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/09-2/kaysep.html

» Trumpet Vibrations: Theological Reflections on Donne's Doomsday Sonnet
   G. Richmond Bridge relates the octave of Holy Sonnet VII to "the substance of much millenarian thought and preaching."
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-07/bridge.htm

» W[illiam] S[hakespeare]'s "A Funeral Elegy" and the Donnean Moment
   Claude J. Summers argues that "A Funeral Elegy" shares an affinity with Donne's mourning poems, but "rejects those very qualities of expansive symbolism and abstraction that the later plays share with the Anniversaries."
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-07/summers.htm