John Donne: Man of Flesh and Spirit

John Donne: Man of Flesh and Spirit
ISBN-10
0826451551
ISBN-13
9780826451552
Series
John Donne
Category
Religion
Pages
368
Language
English
Published
2001-05-21
Publisher
A&C Black
Author
David Edwards

Description

Donne is best known as a poet of love, never describing physical beauty in detail but brilliantly able to recreate a man's experience of love's emotions and realities, but he is much else besides. He is a poet of the spiritual journey who in his power speaks to others in travail, a great preacher who soars into word-music and encapsulates complex theology in illuminating epigrams.David Edwards ranges across all Donne's writings, including the critically neglected sermons, to produce a new and compelling portrait of this tortured and contradictory figure. As the tree's sap doth seek the root belowIn winter, in my winter now I go,Where none but thee, th'Eternal rootOf true Love, I may know.--JOHN DONNE>

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