Trois des derniers poèmes

Includes a wide selection from both his secular and divine poems, such as `Air and Angels', `The Flea', the `Holy Sonnets', and `The Progress of the Soul'.
John Donne (1572-1631) is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century. 

In his day it seemed to his admirers that Donne had changed the literary universe, and he is now widely regarded as the founder of the metaphysical `school'. Donne's poetry is highly distinctive and individual, adopting a multitude of rhythms, images, forms, and personae, from irresistible seducer to devout believer. His greatness stems from the subtleties and ambivalences of tone that convey his remarkably modern awareness of the instability of the self.

This collection of Donne's verse is chosen from the Oxford Authors critical edition of his major works. It includes a wide selection from his secular and divine poems, such as the rebellious and libertine satires and love elegies, the virtuoso Songs and Sonnets, and the desperate, passionate Holy Sonnets. John Carey's introduction and extensive notes provide valuable insights into Donne's poetic genius. 


Readership: Lovers of English poetry and literature, students at A-level and undergraduate level.

Selected poetry

Le drame romantique - Bac 97, français 1res technologiques

Nous sommes dans le monde de Donne. Tout autre point de vue est résolument exclu. Par cette capacité à surprendre furtivement le lecteur et à le subjuguer, Donne surpasse la majeure partie des écrivains. Et c'est là sa principale qualité ; c'est ainsi qu'il exerce son emprise sur nous, en condensant son essence en quelques mots. Mais c'est une essence qui, tandis qu'elle agit parmi nous, se sépare en d'étranges contraires, en contraste l'un avec l'autre. Virginia Woolf

Méditations en temps de crise

D'abord c'est un « tout aimant », qui court autant après la blonde qu'après la brune. La femme est-elle lascive et inconstante comme le veut le péché originel ? Il est le premier à l'en féliciter, puisqu'il prétend persister lui-même dans son inconstance et faire de son papillonnage un art de vivre ! Si la pucelle est rétive, ce juriste (et casuiste patenté) invente toutes les ruses possibles pour la convaincre de sauter le pas de l'amour. Puis vient le temps des idylles romanesques, des contes érotiques, des matinées paresseuses, des chassés-croisés capricieux, jusqu'à ce que le poète épouse en cachette la nièce d'un protecteur qui le vouera aux gémonies. L'amant infidèle devient un mari passionné et met tout son génie érotique au service de ses noces.

Les poésies d'amour

Paradoxes et problèmes

L'une des oeuvres majeures de la poésie anglaise dont l'influence s'est étendue jusqu'à Shelley, Browning et Coleridge, à Yeats et T.S. Eliot. "Poète métaphysique" par son dédain des faux-semblants et l'exigence de son esprit "rude et discordant" de saisir la totalité de l'être alliant sensualité, foi et connaissance. Robert Ellrodt, professeur à la Sorbonne est reconnu comme une autorité des études de littérature anglaise et l'un des meilleurs traducteurs de la poésie.

Poésie

B>''The first poet in the world in some things'', is how John Donne was described by his contemporary Ben Jonson. /b>br>br>Yet it is only this century that Donne has been indisputably established as a great poet--and even, many feel, the greatest love poet of them all. Jonson went on to remark that ''That Donne, for not keeping of an accent, deserved hanging'', yet Donne''s rhythms, once thought ''unmusical'' are now recognized as the natural rhythms of the speaking voice; his ''eccentricity'' as a complex self-doubt; his ''obscurity'' the reflection of a brilliantly learned and allusive mind. Poets such as Eliot and Empson have found Donne''s poetry profoundly attuned to our modern age, while Yeats'' glowing comment will always be true: ''the intricacy and subtlety of his imagination are the length and depth of the furrow made by his passion.'' br>br>This volume, superbly edited by Professor Smith, is the first complete edition to make a serious attempt to guide the reader closely through the complexities of Donne''s poetry. Considerable attention has been paid to the text, and a selection of the important manuscript variants are included. This edition is also the first to make use of the newly discovered manuscript of the verse letter to Lady Carey and Mistress Essex Rich.br>br>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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