Böcker av Ramie Targoff

For centuries readers have struggled to fuse the seemingly scattered pieces of John Donne's works into a complete image of the poet and priest. This book offers a way to read Donne as a writer who returned again and again to a single great subject, one that connected to his deepest intellectual and emotional concerns.

For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Exploring the boundaries that Renaissance English poets drew between earthly and heavenly existence, this book seeks to understand this shift and its consequences for English poetry.