Título: John Donne’s knowledge of medicine.
Autores: Pickup, T.
Fecha: 1954
Publicador: McGill University - MCGILL
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Tipo: Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Tema: English.
Descripción: Ben Jonson wrote that Donne’s work was “longer a knowing than most wits doe live”, and feared that it would perish “for not being understood”. The passage of three and a half centuries has not brought about the fulfilment of Jonson’s prophecy, but it has inevitably added to the difficulty of understanding Donne's poetry. Many of the scientific ideas which underlie a great field of his poetic imagery, and much of the Elizabethan Medicine to which he constantly referred, have now been forgotten. A study of them is rewarded by fresh insight into his meaning.
Idioma: en