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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bloom’s Classic Critical Views JOHN DONNE AND THE METAPHYSICAL POETS Bloom’s Classic Critical Views Benjamin Franklin The Brontës Charles Dickens JOHN DONNE AND THE Edgar Allan Poe Geoffrey Chaucer METAPHYSICAL POETS Henry David Thoreau Herman Melville Jane Austen John Donne and the Metaphysical Poets Mark Twain Mary Shelley Nathaniel Hawthorne Oscar Wilde Ralph Waldo Emerson Walt Whitman William Blake Bloom’s Classic Critical Views JOHN DONNE AND THE METAPHYSICAL POETS Edited and with an Introduction by Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of the Humanities Yale University Bloom’s Classic Critical Views: John Donne and the Metaphysical Poets Copyright © 2008 Infobase Publishing Introduction © 2008 by Harold Bloom All rights reserved. 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Contents QQQ Series Introduction xiii Introduction by Harold Bloom xv JOHN DONNE xxi Biography xxiii Personal 3 Inscription on a Monument 5 Henry King “To the Memory of My Ever Desired Friend Doctor Donne” (1631) 5 Izaak Walton (1639) 6 Sir Richard Baker (1641) 6 John Hacket (1693) 7 Thomas Campbell (1819) 7 Anna Brownell Jameson (1829) 7 William Minto “John Donne” (1880) 8 J.B. Lightfoot (1895) 8 Augustus Jessopp (1897) 9 Edmund Gosse (1899) 9 Sermons 10 Izaak Walton (1639) 11 Henry Hallam (1837–39) 11 Edwin P. Whipple (1859–68) 11 Anne C. Lynch Botta (1860) 12 William Minto (1872–80) 12 Augustus Jessopp (1888) 13 vi Contents General 15 John Donne (1614) 17 Ben Jonson “To John Donne” (1616) 17 William Drummond (1619) 18 Thomas Carew “An Elegie upon the Death of Doctor Donne” (1631) 18 George Daniel “A Vindication of Poesy” (1647) 19 John Dryden “Essay on Satire” (1692) 20 Nathan Drake (1798) 20 Henry Kirke White “Melancholy Hours” (1806) 20 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1818) 21 Robert Southey (1807) 21 Thomas Campbell (1819) 22 Henry Hallam (1837–39) 22 Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1842–63) 22 Hartley Coleridge “Donne” (1849) 23 Edwin P. Whipple (1859–68) 23 George Gilfillan (1860) 24 George L. Craik (1861) 24 Richard Chenevix Trench (1868) 25 H.A. Taine (1871) 26 Robert Chambers (1876) 26 Robert Browning (1878) 27 Alfred Welsh (1882) 27 Francis T. Palgrave (1889) 27 Edmund Gosse (1894) 28 Edward Dowden (1895) 28 Felix E. Schelling “Introduction” (1895) 29 Oswald Crawfurd (1896) 34 J.B. Lightfoot “Donne, the Poet-Preacher” (1896) 35 Frederic Ives Carpenter “Introduction” (1897) 41 David Hannay (1898) 42 Leslie Stephen “John Donne” (1899) 42 Arthur Symons “John Donne” (1899) 43 Reuben Post Halleck (1900) 44 John W. Hales “John Donne” (1903) 44 Works 47 William Hazlitt “On Cowley, Butler, Suckling, etc.” (1819) 49 Unsigned (1823) 51 Henry Alford “Life of Dr. Donne” (1839) 64 Contents vii Unsigned (1846) 72 John Alfred Langford “An Evening with Donne” (1850) 81 George MacDonald “Dr. Donne: His Mode and Style” (1868–69) 86 Edmund Gosse “John Donne” (1894) 94 George Saintsbury “Introduction” (1896) 107 Edmund Gosse (1899) 117 W.J. Courthope “The School of Metaphysical Wit: John Donne” (1903) 142 ANDRew MARvell 165 Biography 167 Personal 171 John Norton “Letter to Reverend Marvell” (1640) 173 John Milton (1652/3) 173 John Aubrey “Andrew Marvell” (1669–96) 174 Richard Morton (1692) 175 Samuel Parker (1727) 175 General 177 Charles Churchill “The Author” (1763) 179 James Granger (1769–1824) 179 John Aikin (1799–1815) 179 William Lisle Bowles “Introduction” (1806) 180 Thomas Campbell (1819) 181 Henry Rogers “Andrew Marvell” (1844) 181 Mary Russell Mitford (1851) 195 Alexander B. Grosart “Memorial—Introduction” (1872) 195 Edmund K. Chambers (1892) 196 Francis Turner Palgrave (1896) 199 Alice Meynell “Andrew Marvell” (1897) 200 Works 205 Edgar Allan Poe “Old English Poetry” (1845) 207 Leigh Hunt (1846) 209 James Russell Lowell “Dryden” (1868) 210 John Ormsby “Andrew Marvell” (1869) 210 Edward FitzGerald (1872) 224 Goldwin Smith “Andrew Marvell” (1880) 225 Edmund Gosse “The Reaction” (1885) 228 viii Contents A.C. Benson “Andrew Marvell” (1892) 232 H.C. Beeching “The Lyrical Poems of Andrew Marvell” (1901) 248 GEORge HERbeRT 265 Biography 267 Personal 271 Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1643) 273 Thomas Fuller (1662) 273 John Aubrey (1669–96) 274 Izaak Walton (1670) 274 Charles Cotton “To My Old, and Most Worthy Friend Mr. Izaak Walton” (1670) 275 John Dunton (1694) 275 John Reynolds “To the Memory of the Divine Mr. Herbert” (1725) 276 S. Margaret Fuller “The Two Herberts” (1846) 280 Alexander Grosart “George Herbert” (1873) 290 Donald G. Mitchell (1890) 291 William Holden Hutton (1895) 291 General 293 Robert Codrington “On Herbert’s Poem” (1638) 295 Henry Vaughan “Preface” (1650) 295 Izaak Walton “The Life of Mr. George Herbert” (1670) 295 Richard Baxter “Prefatory Address” (1681) 310 Unsigned “Preface” (1697) 311 Henry Headley (1787) 313 Henry Neele (1827) 313 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1835) 314 John Ruskin (1845) 316 Robert Aris Willmott “Introduction” (1854) 317 George L. Craik (1861) 318 John Nichol “Introduction” (1863) 318 George MacDonald (1886) 321 John S. Hart (1872) 322 Alexander B. Grosart “George Herbert” (1873) 322 Ralph Waldo Emerson “Preface” (1875) 322 Wentworth Webster (1882) 323 Contents ix George Saintsbury (1887) 323 J. Howard B. Masterman (1897) 324 Louise Imogen Guiney “Henry Vaughan” (1894) 324 Edmund Gosse (1897) 325 Works 327 George Herbert “To Mr. Duncan” (1632) 329 Nicholas Farrer “Preface” (1633) 329 John Polwhele “On Mr. Herberts Devine Poeme The Church” (1633) 331 Izaak Walton (1639) 332 Christopher Harvey “The Synogague” (1640) 332 Richard Crashaw “On Mr. G. Herbert’s Booke intituled The Temple” (1646) 333 George Daniel “An Ode upon the Incomparable Liricke Poesie written by Mr. George Herbert; entitled The Temple” (1648) 334 James Duport “In Divimun Poema (Cui Titulus Templum) Georgii Herberti” (1676) 335 Daniel Baker “On Mr. George Herbert’s Sacred Poems, Called, The Temple” (1697) 336 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1818) 339 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1818) 339 George Gifillan (1853) 343 Robert Aris Wilmott “Introduction” (1854) 344 Edwin P. Whipple (1859–68) 349 George Augustus Simcox (1880) 349 John Brown “The Parson of Bemerton” (1890) 350 RObeRT HERRICK 353 Biography 355 Personal 359 Barron Field (1810) 361 William Carew Hazlitt “Preface” (1869) 362 Justin S. Morrill (1887) 362 Donald G. Mitchell (1890) 363 Agnes Repplier “English Love-Songs” (1891) 363 H.M. Sanders “Robert Herrick” (1896) 364 Thomas Bailey Aldrich “Introduction” (1900) 364 Thomas Bailey Aldrich “Introduction” (1900) 365 x Contents General 373 Edward Phillips (1675) 375 William Winstanley (1687) 375 Anthony á Wood (1691–1721) 376 James Granger (1769–76) 376 Nathan Drake “On the Life, Writings, and Genius of Robert Herrick” (1804) 377 William Hazlitt (1820) 379 Robert Southey (1831) 379 Ralph Waldo Emerson “Ben Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, Wotton” (1835) 379 Henry Hallam (1837–39) 381 S.W. Singer (1846) 381 Mary Russell Mitford (1851) 382 David Masson (1858) 382 George MacDonald (1868) 382 A. Bronson Alcott (1872) 383 William Michael Rossetti (1872) 383 Edmund Gosse “Robert Herrick” (1875) 383 George Barnett Smith “English Fugitive Poets” (1875) 404 F.T. Palgrave “Robert Herrick” (1877) 404 Edmund Gosse “Robert Herrick” (1880) 415 W. Baptiste Scoones (1880) 416 John Dennis (1883) 416 Ernest Rhys “Introduction” (1887) 417 Austin Dobson “In a Copy of the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick” (1887) 418 George Saintsbury (1887) 418 Andrew Lang (1889) 419 Donald G. Mitchell (1890) 420 William Ernest Henley “Herrick” (1890) 420 Richard LeGallienne “Robert Herrick” (1891) 422 Algernon Charles Swinburne “Robert Herrick” (1891) 424 Alfred W. Pollard “Herrick and His Friends” (1892) 427 George Saintsbury “Introduction” (1893) 438 Edward Everett Hale, Jr. “Introduction” (1895) 449 Frederic Ives Carpenter “Introduction” (1897) 449 J. Howard B. Masterman (1897) 450 Contents xi Works 451 Hesperides 453 Robert Herrick “The Argument of his Book” (1648) 453 Unsigned “To Parson Weeks, an Invitation to London” (1656) 453
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