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JOHN DONNE
LITERARY
Courtly Love
- lover is smitten through the eyes
- initially fear making his love known
- suffered through love sickness
- writes highly emotional love letters
- she signs him tasks to prove his love
- absolute secrecy of their love
- the knight is faithful champion of his lady
- stories differ for how innocent the lady is
- actions towards the lady may become increasingly less noble
Petrarchan - the mistress is chaste and remote and the male lover is constant in his devotion, often dying of unrequited love for a distant and aloof mistress
Petrarchan conceit - a hyperbolic comparison most often made by a suffering lover of his beautiful mistress to some physical object e.g. a tomb, the ocean and sun
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poetry secret, private and unpublished
poetry of wit, satires, fantasy elegies - writing for a coterie audience
Chaucer's: The Wife of Bath Tale
- provided an insight into the role of women at the time
- discovered that women desire the control and sovereignty over men
SOCIAL
Renaissance Humanism
Humanism - a revival of humanities; purify and renew Christianity, transforming medieval theology
Revival of Classical philosoophy
Anthropocentrity - the complete man
perfection of self in society
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Alchemy - an early medieval science that involved the discovery of the 'philosophers stone' by which base metals could be transmuted into gold
Donne mocks this profession which was going out of fashion
shift towards scientific endeavour and a human search for knowledge anoint the world
- Galileo - Earth revolves around the sun
BIOGRAPHICAL
- 1572 - born in London
- 1583 - Oxford, travel, Cambridge
- 1592 - Law Study at Lincoln's Inn, London
- 1596 - Sails in the sack of Cadiz with Raleigh against Spain
- 1598 - appointment as secretary to Sir Egerton
- 1601 - secret marriage to Anne More, niece of Egerton - she had no dowery, he was briefly imprisoned and dismissed with his career ruined
- 1601-14 - poverty but patronage
- 1615 - ordained into Church of England, Divinity degree
- 1617 - Anne dies in childbirth
- 1621 - Dean of St Paul;s cathedral and wrote sermons
- 1631 - dies in London
Conversion from Catholic to Anglicabism and it was only here which he recieved his degree yet as a result he suffered a lot of internal conflict of faith
sailed with the royal fleet and served as both a member of Parliament and diplomat
concerned with death seen in his poetry - posed with the shroud as if ready for death and his statue was installed within 18 month of his death in 1631
thought he was gonna die in 1626/7
His father died when he was young and his mother remarried twice
related to Sir Thomas More who had been martyred for his Catholic faith
RELIGOUS
BIBLICAL
Grace
- Imputed
- protestant reformation
- Christ's death cleansed you
- Christ's righteousness accepted by faith alone
- entirely decided by God
- Infused
- Catholic
- faith in a lack of certianty
- earn grace through 'works' e.g. babtisim and purgatory
- restoration of God's image in you
Sin - always against God and the one who sins is alienated or separated from God
original sin - fall of man, everyone inherits the mark or stain of sin as part of human nature
salvation - often viewed by Donne in an eschatological (end of the world) or apocalyptic (revelation) perspective
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Queen Elizabeth persecuted Catholics and upheld the Church of England but James I tolerated Catholicism
COLONIAL
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the significance of the court and the opportunities it provided hence the poverty after being cast out for marrying Anne
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METAPHYSICAL POET
features elaborate conceits and surprising symbols, wrapped up in original, challenging language structures with learned themes that draw heavily on the eccentric chains of reasoning
extravagent, incomprehensible ideas placing them in the every day