John Donne An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism, 1979

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JOHN DONNE:
AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
MODERN CRITICISM, 1979–1995
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Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies
General Editor
Albert C. Labriola
Advisory Editor
Foster Provost
Editorial Board
Judith H. Anderson
Diana Treviño Benet
Donald Cheney
Ann Baynes Coiro
Mary T. Crane
Patrick Cullen
A. C. Hamilton
Margaret P. Hannay
A. Kent Hieatt
William B. Hunter
Michael Lieb
Thomas P. Roche Jr.
Mary Beth Rose
Humphrey Tonkin
Susanne Woods
John Donne
An Annotated
Bibliography
of Modern Criticism,
1979–1995
John R. Roberts
Duquesne University Press
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Copyright © 2004 Duquesne University Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Roberts, John Richard
John Donne: an annotated bibliography of modern criticism, 1979–1995 / by
John R. Roberts.
p. cm. — (Medieval & Renaissance literary studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8207-0353-2 (hardcover: alk. paper)
1. Donne, John, 1572–1631—Bibliography. 2. Donne, John, 1572–1631—
Criticism and interpretation—Bibliography. I. Title. II. Medieval and
Renaissance literary studies
Z8237.R625 2004
[PR2248]
016.821'3—dc22
2004003531
∞ Printed on acid-free paper.
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To the past and present members of the Advisory Board of The Variorum
Edition of the Poetry of John Donne
Dennis Flynn
M. Thomas Hester
William B. Hunter Jr.
Albert C. Labriola
Paul A. Parrish
Ted-Larry Pebworth
Jeanne Shami
John T. Shawcross
Gary A. Stringer
Ernest W. Sullivan II
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CONTENTS
Preface .......................................................................................................... ix
List of Abbreviations ...................................................................................... xiii
DONNE CRITICISM, ARRANGED BY YEAR
1979 .......................................................................................................... 1
1980 .......................................................................................................... 23
1981 .......................................................................................................... 47
1982 .......................................................................................................... 75
1983 .......................................................................................................... 115
1984 .......................................................................................................... 149
1985 .......................................................................................................... 179
1986 .......................................................................................................... 207
1987 .......................................................................................................... 249
1988 .......................................................................................................... 285
1989 .......................................................................................................... 313
1990 .......................................................................................................... 341
1991 .......................................................................................................... 387
1992 .......................................................................................................... 415
1993 .......................................................................................................... 449
1994 .......................................................................................................... 489
1995 .......................................................................................................... 527
INDEX OF AUTHORS ................................................................................ 571
INDEX OF SUBJECTS ................................................................................ 585
INDEX OF DONNE’S WORKS .................................................................. 599
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PREFACE
The primary purpose of this bibliography is to provide students, scholars and crit-
ics of John Donne with a useful aid to research. This study is the first to collect
and fully annotate the vast amount of criticism and scholarship written on Donne
during the period 1979–1995. The present volume is a continuation of my two pre-
viously published bibliographies: John Donne: An Annotated Bibliography of
Modern Criticism, 1912–1967(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1973) and
John Donne: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism, 1968–1978 (Columbia:
University of Missouri Press, 1982). This volume ends at 1995 because more recent
studies were not always available, especially foreign items, and because biblio-
graphical sources were often incomplete after that date.
The present bibliography follows, for the most part, the principles and guide-
lines established for the earlier volumes. The annotations are essentially descrip-
tive, not evaluative, because I find that what is important and/or useful to one
scholar is not equally significant to another. The annotations, however, are quite
detailed and quote extensively from the items in order to convey a sense of the
approach and level of critical sophistication. Therefore, the readers should be able
to judge for themselves whether a particular book or essay will be useful for their
purposes. I also have listed each item chronologically so that by reading through
the bibliography readers will be able to obtain a sense of the various shifts and
developments that have occurred in Donnean criticism during the 17-year period
covered. Such an arrangement allows readers to observe that Donne’s works have
been run through many and various critical sieves (linguistic, stylistic, biographi-
cal, psychoanalytic, bibliographic, textual, feminist, new historicist, political, for-
malistic, etc.) and that, in a sense, work done on him represents a kind of microcosm
of what has taken place in literary criticism during the past two decades. By using
the three detailed indexes (author, subject and works of Donne mentioned in the
annotations), users can easily locate the individual studies that interest them.
As in the previous volumes, I have tried to make this bibliography as compre-
hensive and complete as possible, yet even from the beginning, it was necessary
to impose certain limitations. The basic guiding principle has been to include all
books, monographs, essays and notes specifically on Donne written between 1979
and 1995; but, in addition, extended discussions of Donne that appear in works
not centrally concerned with him have been included. Nearly all the books and
many essays on metaphysical poetry or on individual seventeenth century poets
contain some comment on or reference to Donne, but to have included all items
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