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Series IntroductionQQQ

Blooms Classic Critical Views is a new series presenting a selection o the most

important older literary criticism on the greatest authors commonly read in high

school and college classes today. Unlike the Blooms Modern Critical Views series,

which or more than 20 years has provided the best contemporary criticism on great

authors, Blooms Classic Critical Views attempts to present the authors in the con-

text o their time and to provide criticism that has proved over the years to be the

most valuable to readers and writers. Selections range rom contemporary reviews

in popular magazines, which demonstrate how a work was received in its own era,

to proound essays by some o the strongest critics in the British and American tradi-

tion, including Henry James, G.K. Chesterton, Matthew Arnold, and many more.

Some o the critical essays and extracts presented here have appeared previously

in other titles edited by Harold Bloom, such as the New Moultons Library o Literary

Criticism. Other selections appear here or the rst time in any book by this publisher.

All were selected under Harold Blooms guidance.

In addition, each volume in this series contains a series o essays by a con-

temporary expert, who comments on the most important critical selections,

putting them in context and suggesting how they might be used by a student writerto inuence his or her own writing. This series is intended above all or students, to

help them think more deeply and write more powerully about great writers and

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John Donne was born in London in 1572. His ather was a prosperous merchant; his

mother (the daughter o the epigrammatist John Heywood) was a devout Catholic

whose amily had suered religious persecution and exile. Donne matriculated rom

Oxord in 1584, and although he did not receive a degree, the university would later

award him an honorary MA. Donne also trained as a lawyerhis entrance in 1591

to Thavies Inn was ollowed by admittance to Lincolns in 1592and some critics

have remarked upon the traces o legal training evident in the conceits and tight

reasoning o his verse. Donne appears to have remained at Lincolns until 1596,

when he joined the English expedition to Cadiz. On his return to England in 1597,

he spent several years in the service o Sir Thomas Egerton, staying with Egerton

while he entered Parliament as the Member or Brackley. One o the decisive

turning points o his lie occurred in December 1601, when he secretly married

Ann More, Lady Egertons niece. The conession o his marriage to his ather-in-law

in February 1602 resulted in imprisonment and dismissal rom Egertons service. His

marriage was subsequently to cause Donne so much diiculty that he would write

in a letter to his wie in 1602, John Donne, Ann Donne, Un-done.

Donne was unsuccessul in his application or employment in the Queenshousehold, and or secretaryships in Ireland and with the Virginia Company. In

1614, he served as Member o Parliament or Taunton and sat on several select

committees; he was, however, still unable to nd state employment. In 1615, he

took orders in the Church o England, a step which had been urged on him by

the Dean o Gloucester eight years beore. From this time on, he served in various

ecclesiastical unctions: as Royal Chaplain, rector and vicar o several parishes,

Reader in Divinity at Lincolns Inn, and as a Justice in the Court o Delegates. The

crowning achievement o his career came in 1621, when he was elected Dean o

St. Pauls. He preached widely, both at Court and abroad, and his sermons were

received with acclaim and published in 1622, 1625, and 1626. He was a strong

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candidate or a bishopric in 1630, but ell seriously ill late that year. He died in 1631

and is buried in St. Pauls. Although he is best known today or his poems, ew o

them were published in his lietime: the First and Second Anniversaries came out

in 1612, as did Break o Day, and Elegy upon Prince Henry was published the

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Henry King To the Memory of My EverDesired Friend Doctor Donne (1631)

A ormer Bishop o Chicester, Henry King (15921669) was a noted

churchman and author o his day. A close riend o Donnes and executor

o his estate, Kings elegy on Donnes death is oten considered amongst

the inest o his works.

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Izaak Walton (1639)John Donne was once Izaak Waltons (15931683) pastor at St. Dunstans

in addition to being a close riend. Walton considered himsel a Converto Donne, who was clearly an important inluence on both his spiritual

and literary lie. Walton wrote the irst biography o Donne, published in

1640 and revised in 1658.

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Sir Richard Baker (1641)Sir Richard Baker (15681645) was an author and occasional member of

the British parliament. He is most know for his workChronicle of the Kings

of England from the Time of the Romans Government unto the Death of King

James, which he completed while incarcerated in Fleet debtors prison.

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AChronicle o the Kings o England, 1641

John Hacket (1693)

John Hacket (15921670) was a renowned English churchman, formerly

Bishop o both Lichield and Coventry. He wrote several works, most

noted of which are the comedy Loiola and the biography, published

posthumously, that is excerpted below.

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Thomas Campbell (1819)An important and inluential poet and writer o the latter portion o the

Romantic period, Thomas Campbell (17771844) was most known or his

biographies and his humanist work, The Pleasures of Hope.

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Anna Brownell Jameson (1829)Famed as an art historian, travel writer, and eminist pioneer, Anna

Brownell Jameson (17941860) wrote the popular, two-volume workThe

Loves of the Poets, which explored the lives o the women who were loved

and celebrated by great poets throughout time.

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William Minto John Donne (1880)William Minto (18451893) was a Scottish critic and scholar, a pro-

essor at the University o Aberdeen, and author o the respectedCharacteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to Shirley.

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J.B. Lightfoot (1895)Joseph Barber Lightfoot (18281889) was an English churchman and

bishop o Durham. A noted scholar of theology, Lightfoot published

over a dozen well-respected books, most of which deal with biblicalsubject matter.

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Augustus Jessopp (1897)A noted English author and archaeologist, Augustus Jessopp (18231914)

was, like Donne, a churchman and rector, and oten acted as chaplain in

ordinary to King Edward VII.

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Sometime Dean o St. Pauls, 1897, . 13, 18

Edmund Gosse (1899)Edmund Gosse (18491928) was a proliic and important man o letters

rom the late Victorian Era through the irst quarter o the twentieth


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century. Though also a poet and author o prose, Gosse was most

revered as a literary critic, penning a wide scope o literary criticism

and biography on such seemingly disparate igures as Algernon Charles

Swinburne, Henrik Ibsen, William Congreve, Robert Browning, and, o

course, John Donne.

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1899, v. 1, . 3, 11, v. 2, . 290

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Izaak Walton (1639)

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m rur gr uxrb m.

izk W, Te Lie o Dr. John Donne, 1639

Henry Hallam (183739)Henry Hallam (17771859) was a prominent nineteenth-century literary

historian and scholar. Oten viewed as a philosopher or moralist, Hallam

penned several well-regarded works, including one on the constitu-

tional history o England.

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the Literature o Europe,

183739, . 3, . 2, r. 70

Edwin P. Whipple (185968)

Edwin Percy Whipple (18191886) was a prominent American essayist and crit-

ic, one o the oremost authors on literary works o the nineteenth century.

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w p. W, Te Literature o

the Age o Elizabeth, 185968, . 237

Anne C. Lynch Botta (1860)An American poet and critic o modest achievement, Anne C. Lynch

Botta (18151891) was more renowned or hosting a amous literary

salon, irst in Providence, Rhode Island, and then later in New York City.

At these weekly salons, prominent writers o the day shared new and

emerging works with eager audiences. Edgar Allen Poe, Horace Greeley,

and Catharine Sedgwick are amongst the writers who appeared in

Bottas drawing room.

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a . l B, Hand-Book o

Universal Literature, 1860, . 476

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English Prose Literature, 187280, . 253

Augustus Jessopp (1888)

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John Donne (1614)

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D. 20, 1614, he Works o John Donne,

. hr ar, v. 6, 1839, . 367

Ben Jonson

To John Donne (1616)Ben Jonson (1572?1637) was one o the most prominent authors o his

time, a renowned dramatist and poet. A contemporary and colleague

o Donnes, Jonson was a great admirer o the poet, oten praising him

in his works, though, as is typical o Jonson, some o his praise was alsotempered by criticism as well.

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a w i m r, i wu;

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B J, o J D, 1616

William Drummond (1619)William Drummond o Hawthornden (15851649) was a sublime Scottish

poet and the unoicial poet laureate o Edinburgh in his day. Today

he is most remembered or publishing a series o notes and observa-

tions based on conversations with Ben Jonson, whose views on Donne,

both praising and critical, Drummond repeats below. In another letter,

Drummond is also credited with being the irst critic to write o a groupo metaphysical writers.

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Notes on Ben Jonsons Conversations, 1619

Thomas Carew An Elegie upon

the Death of Doctor Donne (1631)Thomas Carew (1594 or 15951640) was one o the more successul and

well-known poets o the court o King Charles I. Today he is remembered


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as belonging to the Cavalier style o poetry, along with Sir John Suckling,

Richard Lovelace, and others. Carews deservedly amous elegy on the

death o Donne, excerpted below, has oten been considered one o the

most perceptive appraisals o the great metaphysical poets work dating

rom his own time.

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George Daniel

A Vindication of Poesy (1647)George Daniel (16161657) was a poet best known or his work The

Robin. As many o his contemporaries did, Daniel responded to Donneswork in poetic orm, a sure sign o Donnes signiicance to his ellow

writers.

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John Dryden

Essay on Satire (1692)

The greatest playwright and satirist o his day, John Dryden (16311700)ranks as oremost among the generation o English writers that suc-

ceeded Donne and his contemporaries. Though clearly an admirer o

Donnes body o work, Drydens criticism o the poet helped usher in an

era where some o Donnes writing ell rom the highest lots o artistic

avor. Though not present in the excerpt below, Dryden was the irst

critic to use the term metaphysic when writing about Donne.

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1692, v. 13, . s, sbur, . 109

Nathan Drake (1798)Nathan Drake (17661836) was an English physician and literary scholar

most noted for his comprehensive, two-volume work on William

Shakespeare.

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Henry Kirke White

Melancholy Hours (1806)Henry Kirke White (17851806) gained some ame as a young poet

whose natural genius or poesy was hailed by numerous prominent


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men o his day, including Robert Southey and George Gordon, Lord

Byron. Having died young, Whites second collectionwhere the below

excerpt can be oundwas published posthumously in 1807.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1818)

One o the most signiicant authors and critics o his time, Samuel

Taylor Coleridge (17721834) is perhaps most well-known today or his

epic poems Kubla Khan and Rime o the Ancient Mariner.

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1818, . a, . 427

Robert Southey (1807)Renowned as one o the amous Lake Poets, whose ranks also included

Coleridge and William Wordsworth, Robert Southey (17741843) served

as poet laureate o England or thirty years. An important critic and

man o letters, Southeys criticism o Donne, especially when com-

pared and contrasted to the other excerpts presented here rom his

contemporaries Coleridge, Campbell, and Hallam, demonstrates the

inconstant opinion with which Donne was regarded in the early part o

the nineteenth century.

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M.

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Later English Poets, 1807, v. 1, . xx v

Thomas Campbell (1819)

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rm uxru vr, r bj r r

w urg rum. h bg w mum w

m v br. h rugg wm r m

rvrb kw. r bu ug w rv r

rm mg, k rm Vu mg wr.

Tm mb,An on English Poetry, 1819

Henry Hallam (183739)

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m r vr u; r r vu. Fw r g r mu;

v v mr bg gb: wu r b

u r g w u r r g.

hr hm, Introduction to

the Literature o Europe, 183739,

. 3, . 5, r. 39

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

(184263)The most renowned woman poet o the nineteenth century, Elizabeth

Barrett Browning (18061861) is amous today or her Sonnets rom

the Portuguese and her romantic marriage to ellow poet Robert

Browning. Though she mainly published her own poetry, Barrett

Browning was also a respected critic o other poets work.

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Te Book o Poets, 184263, v. 2, . 50

Hartley Coleridge Donne

(1849)The son o Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hartley Coleridge (17961849) was

a minor writer who never lived up to the promise and expectations his

ather placed upon him. Coleridge was more known or his literary jour-

nalism and criticism, placing essays and poems in several popular maga-

zines o the day and publishing one biographical work in his lietime.

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Edwin P. Whipple (185968)

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v .

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the Age o Elizabeth, 185968, . 231

George Gilfillan (1860)George Gilillan (18131878) was a revered Scottish clergyman and author,

writing popular biographies o Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott and

numerous other important texts. Gilillan collected and edited volumes

o the work o dozens o prominent writers, including contemporaries

o Donne like George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, and John Milton. As evi-

denced below, his opinion o Donnewritten in his characteristic, at times

grandiloquent, stylewas decidedly mixed.

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o the Less-Known British Poets, 1860, v. 1, . 203

George L. Craik (1861)George Little Craik (17981866) was a Scottish historian and literary

scholar.

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, ru r g.

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English Literature and o the English Language,

1861, v. 1, . 579

Richard Chenevix Trench (1868)Richard Chenevix Trench (18071886) was an Irish poet and churchman

who eventually became Archbishop o Dublin. Sometimes considered apoetic ollower o Wordsworths, Trench also contributed to the study o

English linguistics.

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H.A. Taine (1871)

A French literary critic and historian, Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828

1893) was the author of numerous important works, including his four-volume History of English Literature, which he penned in 1864 and was

translated into English in 1871. Taine was an important literary theorist

and is often credited as the architect of literary historicism.

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mr?

h.a. , History o English Literature,

1871, v. 1, r. V lu, bk. 2, . 1, . 20304

Robert Chambers (1876)

A noted Scottish publisher and author, Robert Chambers (18021871)

was the author of dozens of works, including the Cyclopaedia of English

Literature, which he first completed in 1840 and which was subse-

quently revised. He is often best remembered today as the author

of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, released anonymously in

1844, which presented a somewhat radical and highly controversial

view of evolution.

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Robert Browning (1878)One o the most important Victorian poets, Robert Browning (1812

1889) proessed his admiration or Donne in his 1878 collection LaSaisiaz: The Two Poets of Croisic.

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Te wo Poets o Croisic, 1878

Alfred Welsh (1882)An American literary scholar and author, Alred Welsh (18491889) spent

most o his career in the English Department at the Ohio State University.

Welsh, unlike many o his contemporaries, who were beginning to redis-

cover admiration or Donne (as Chambers expresses above,) relected

the views o critics o the previous century, who ound much to criticize

in the poets work.

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Literature and Language, 1882, v. 1, . 413

Francis T. Palgrave (1889)Francis Turner Palgrave (18241897) was an ot controversial Victorian

critic o both art and literature. Though Palgrave was an occasional poet

and prose author, he is best remembered or his criticisms, which were

widely respected in his day.

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Fr . pgrv, Te reasury o

Sacred Song, 1889, , . 333

Edmund Gosse (1894)

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1894, . 4748

Edward Dowden (1895)An Irish poet and scholar, Edward Dowden (18431913) was a proessor o

English literature at Trinity College in Dublin or over orty years. He pub-

lished extensively on French and English authors, including ull-length

works on William Shakespeare, Michel de Montaigne, Edmund Spenser,

and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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1895, . 9091, 10717

Felix E. Schelling Introduction (1895)Felix Emmanuel Schelling (18581945) was an American educator and

literary scholar. In the essay below, taken rom an introductory essay

to a collection o Elizabethan poetry, Schelling describes what he calls

the positive originality and negative originality o Donnes work.

Donnes positive originality maniests in Donnes poetic insight, which

Schelling writes the power which, proceeding by means o the clash o

ideas amiliar with ideas remote, lashes light and meaning into what has

hitherto appeared mere commonplace. Donnes negative originality

is ound in the uniqueness o his lyrics and work; Schelling argues that

Donne was by ar the most independent lyrical metrist o this age andthat unlike many o his contemporaries, Donne was not highly shaped by

the prevailing inluence o Renaissance Italian poetry.

Schelling also compares Donne to several o his contemporaries,

including George Daniel, Fulke Greville, and especially Ben Jonson.

Schelling bristles at the notion, oten debated in his time, that Jonson

may have originated the metaphysical school o poetry; Schelling clearly

places this mantle onto Donnes shoulders, arguing that, excepting

Shakespeare, no one has done so much to develop intellectualized

emotion in the Elizabethan lyric as John Donne. Any individual careully

studying Donnes work may nd Schellings essay particularly interesting,

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not only Donne but also Jonson and the other poets Schelling mentions

below may prove a ruitul endeavor in urther understanding Donnes

unique place amongst Renaissance poets.

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3. Poetical Rhapsody, . , . xv.

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Oswald Crawfurd (1896)Oswald Crawurd (18341909) was an English novelist, poet, and travel

writer. He is best known or his travel writings on Portugal and his novels

The World We Live In and Sylvia Arden.

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Donne, the Poet-Preacher (1896)

In the essay below, Lightfoot writes eloquently of Donnes passionsand ability as a preacher, declaring that in his published sermons,

There is throughout an energy, a glow, an impetuosity, a force as

of a torrent, which must have swept his hearers onward despite

themselves. Lightfoot provides a contextual understanding of how

Donne approached composing his sermons, and likewise suggests

how contemporary readers and critics should approach these works

as well: Donnes sermons are not faultless models of pulpit oratory.

From this point of view they cannot be studied as the sermons of the

great French preachers may be studied . . . even here he is elevated

above himself and his time by his subject. There is still far too much of

that conceit of language, of that subtlety of association, of that sport

with ideas, which has been condemned in his verse compositions . . .

[yet] we marvel at the profusion of learning, the richness of ideas and

imagery, the abundance in all kinds . . . [he] speaks directly to our time,

because he speaks to all times. Any student examining Donnes ser-

monic writings is well advised to begin with this essay, which not only

highlights the few flaws Lightfoot finds in Donnes oratorical worksbut which also, and much more ef fectively, unabashedly demonstrates

the longstanding admiration with which critics and scholars have

viewed these same works.

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J.B. lg, D, p-prr,

Historical Essays, 1896, . 23245

Frederic Ives Carpenter

Introduction (1897)

Frederic Ives Carpenter (18611925) was an American literary scholar and

long-time aculty member at the University o Chicago.

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David Hannay (1898)An English journalist and author, David Hannay (18531934) was mostly

known or his biographies and newspaper work.

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Leslie Stephen John Donne (1899)

Leslie Stephen (18321904) was the ather to amed author Virginia Wool

and the irst editor oThe Dictionary of National Biography. Though long

overshadowed by his amous progeny, Stephen was a proliic author andcritic whose agnostic ideals shine through his analysis o Donne.

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Te National Review, 1899, . 613

Arthur Symons John Donne (1899)A British playwright, poet, translator, and critic, Arthur Symons (1865

1945) was as much o a Renaissance man as he paints Donne to be in

the portrait excerpted below. He published numerous volumes o his

poetry and essays, and was also praised or his editorial work on volumes

by Shakespeare and Ernest Dowson.

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Reuben Post Halleck (1900)Reuben Post Halleck (18591936) was a scholar and writer most known

or his excellent companion works, History of English Literature andHistory of American Literture.

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English Literature, 1900, . 186

John W. Hales John Donne (1903)John Wesley Hales (18361914) was a prominent scholar best known

or his work on Renaissance poet Edmund Spenser. In the piece below,

though Hales proesses himsel an admirer o Donnes, the author rails

against the metaphysical school o poetry, arguing that Donnes poeticgits were perversely directed, and that the metaphysics represent a

certain bad taste o [the] day. Haless main issue with the metaphysical

school is what may be called its antasticality, its quaint wit, elaborate

ingenuity, ar-etched allusiveness. This was the most prominent criti-

cism leveled against Donne in the nineteenth century (and, indeed, prior

to that time) and Hales demonstrates the continuing authority o the

argument in the early twentieth century. Paradoxically, Hales assails the

act that Donnes reputation has suered because o this idea: Donnes

contemporary reputation as a poet, and still more as a preacher, was

immense; and a glance at his works would suice to show that he did

not deserve the contempt with which he was subsequently treated.

Nonetheless, Hales reproduces the argument himsel, demonstrating

that the chie complaint against the metaphysical poets is the very

nature o metaphysical poetry itsel.

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William Hazlitt On Cowley,

Butler, Suckling, etc. (1819)

One o the greatest English literary critics o the nineteenth century,

William Hazlitt (17781830) also wrote on art, politics, and history. A

renowned intellect and essayist, Hazlitt comments below on Donnes

satirical works, stating that in his satires, Donne strove to demonstrate

disagreeable truths in as disagreeable a way as possible, or to convey

a pleasing and aecting thought (o which there are many to be ound

in his other writings) by the harshest means, and with the most painul

eort. Ultimately Hazlitt concludes that he does not admire Donnes

satires as much as his other works or this reason; they are too illedwith contempt and dogma or Hazlitts liking, who seemingly preerred

a lighter, deter approach to satire. Hazlitts critique o Donnes satires

relect those made by critics o his other works, and those studying

Donnes body o work may ind it suggestive to compare Hazlitts

criticisms to others presented in this collection.

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Te Collected Works o William Hazlitt, .

a.R. Wkr ar Gwr, 1903, v. 8, . 5153

Unsigned (1823)The unsigned piece below, published in an early nineteenth-century literary

magazine, is quite critical o Donne, suggesting that, In pieces that can

be read with unmingled pleasure, and admired as perect wholes, the

poetry o Donne is almost entirely deicient. Almost every beauty we

meet with, goes hand in hand with some striking deormity, o one kind

or another; and the eect o this is, at irst, so completely irritating to

the imagination, as well as to the taste, that, ater we have experienced

it a ew times, we hastily determine to be without the one, rather than


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purchase it at the price o the other. Though the author considers

Donne learned and in possession o a strong wit, he dislikes the poets

antastical imagination (a criticism shared by Hazlitt and Lightoot

in above excerpted texts) and suggests that Donne lacks sensitivity

and taste. In act, the author generally criticizes the entire school o

metaphysical poetry, writing that the metaphysical poets had little

simplicity o eeling, and still less o taste. They did not know the real and

intrinsic value o any object, whether moral or physical; but only in what

manner it might be connected with any other object, so as to be made

subservient to their particular views at the moment. The author does,

however, ind little gems in Donnes works to admire, phrases, lines and

passages that are not encumbered by the poets numerous aults, andin sharing those particular moments in Donnes poesy with the reader,

the author is perhaps initiating a larger conversation about the merit o

individual pieces o work in Donne, though students studying the author

will more likely ind this authors criticisms a more useul springboard in

constructing their own arguments about Donne.

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Wrk 61

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