Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #560086 in Books
• Published on: 1990-05-21
• Binding: Paperback
• 317 pages

Synopsis
An examination of the life and work of John Donne. The book begins with an account of Donne's life and takes as its domain not only the whole range of poetry, but also the sermons, the letters, the spiritual and controversial works, and such highly personal documents as the treatise on suicide.

Customer Reviews

A sometimes insightful but essentially hostile view of Donne
Carey is an undeniably brilliant critic and a subtle analyst. However, his basic premises focus on Donne as a guilty apostate Catholic, overwhelmingly ambitious,sycophantic and self-centred. That Donne had feet of clay, I have no doubt, but I find the hostility to Donne here a tad heavy-handed. People looking to understand Donne should read this as a corrective to the hagiographic tradition which started with Walton. On the other hand, I find it hard to embrace so fundamentally unfriendly a view, and I incline to agree with David Edwards in his critique of Carey in his "John Donne: Man of Flesh and Spirit". I accept Donne's sincerity as an Anglican convert, and find in him a more intense and essentially honest spirituality than Carey seems ready to credit.Still, a stimulating book.