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Colon and Semi-Colon in Donne's Prose Letters: Practice and Principle
Suggests that "Donne's colon and semicolon usage reveals several Donnean principles of punctuation." By Emma L. Roth-Schwartz.
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-1/rothdonn.html
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John Donne's Use of Space
"Donne's spatial imagination: its cosmographic assumptions, and its many contradictions," by Lisa Gorton.
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-2/gortjohn.htm
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Book Review
Gary Kuchar reviews Ronald Corthell's Ideology and Desire in Renaissance Poetry: The Subject of Donne.
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/kuchrev.htm
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The Metaphysical Sonnets of John Donne and Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski: A Comparison
Magdalena Kay suggests that "Both poets work out their ideas through paradox and syntactic play."
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/09-2/kaysep.html
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"I haue often such a sickly inclination": Biography and the Critical Interpretation of Donne's Suicide Tract, Biathanatos
R. G. Siemens suggests that the tract should be read "as a detached . . . examination of the moral implications of an action," rather than a reflection of Donne's state of mind.
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-07/siemens.htm
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John Donne's "Lamentations" and Christopher Fetherstone's Lamentations . . . in prose and meeter (1587)
Ted-Larry Pebworth argues that Donne engaged the 1587 edition of Fetherstone's "Lamentations" to translate the text into English.
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-07/pebworth.htm
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W[illiam] S[hakespeare]'s "A Funeral Elegy" and the Donnean Moment
Claude J. Summers argues that "A Funeral Elegy" shares an affinity with Donne's mourning poems, but "rejects those very qualities of expansive symbolism and abstraction that the later plays share with the Anniversaries."
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-07/summers.htm
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"Witness this Booke, (thy Emblem)": Donne's Holy Sonnets and Biography
Diana Treviño Benet argues that the sonnets have been widely studied in terms of the poet's theology, but "their recourse to biography" deserves critical attention.
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-07/benet.htm
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Britten and Donne: Holy Sonnets Set to Music
Bryan N. S. Gooch argues that the ordering of the Sonnets in Britten's Opus 35 reflects the composer's personal experience of visiting German concentration camps.
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-07/gooch.htm
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Trumpet Vibrations: Theological Reflections on Donne's Doomsday Sonnet
G. Richmond Bridge relates the octave of Holy Sonnet VII to "the substance of much millenarian thought and preaching."
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-07/bridge.htm
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