- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Northcote House Publishers Ltd; First edition (3 Jan 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0746307381
- ISBN-13: 978-0746307380
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.6 x 0.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,032,809 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This review is from: John Donne (Writers & Their Work) (Paperback)
The value of this book lies in its feminist perspective on Donne's love poems. Its central argument is that the poems reveal a profound dependence on women's love at the same time as a deep anxiety about their constancy that issues in a lingering misogyny. It is a persuasive argument. The earlier poems, especially the Elegies, are seen as exhibiting a masculine aggressiveness, while the later ones show signs of great tenderness and profound loss: the readings of `A Valediction: forbidding Mourning' and ` A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy's Day' are among the best moments in the book. Unfortunately, the book is not immune from disquieting error. The famous passage asserting a common humanity (`No man is an island...') occurs in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, perhaps the only prose work of Donne's that can still speak to us, and not in one of the Sermons, as Davies strangely declares. It is an error that undermines her local discussion. More importantly, the book does not ask why this deep connection between anxiety and dependence within sexual relationships arose when it did at the end of the sixteenth century, and in a body of poems that were widely popular at the time. Davies sees them simply as expressive of the male mind which is endemic in civilisation. A more convincing view would place the poems within the general anxiety engendered by a new form of society. Emergent capitalism threatened to dissolve all existing relations, the most intimate among them.
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