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    A Study Guide for John Donne's "The Canonization"
    A Study Guide for John Donne's "The Canonization"
    A Study Guide for John Donne's "The Canonization"
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    A Study Guide for John Donne's "The Canonization"

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    A Study Guide for John Donne's "The Canonization," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 28, 2016
    ISBN9781535835626
    A Study Guide for John Donne's "The Canonization"

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      A Study Guide for John Donne's "The Canonization" - Gale

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      The Canonization

      John Donne

      1633

      Introduction

      The Canonization is a love poem written by English poet John Donne. Donne composed the poem sometime in the 1590s, but it was not published until 1633 in his collection of poems Songs and Sonnets. In the intervening years the poem would likely have circulated privately among the poet's friends and admirers.

      Donne is regarded as one of the major poets of the Jacobean period, referring to the reign of King James I of England from 1603 to 1625; the word is derived from Jacobus, Latin for James, a name whose origins lie with the Hebrew Jacob. This period represented a high point in late Renaissance English literature. William Shakespeare and John Webster wrote many of their greatest tragedies during the Jacobean period, while Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, and John Fletcher excelled at comedies for the stage. Among poets, numerous names stand out along with Donne's, among them George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, and Andrew Marvell.

      These and other poets have traditionally been referred to as the metaphysical poets, but this term causes some confusion due to its somewhat vague definition. Commenting on Donne's poetry, seventeenth-century poet and dramatist John Dryden, as quoted by Colin Burrow in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, referred to the metaphysics of Donne's poetry, saying that it perplexes the minds of the fair sex [women] with nice speculations of philosophy when [it] should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love. Burrow also quotes Samuel Johnson, an eighteenth-century essayist and critic, who referred to what he called a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets. The term was used to disparage Donne and many of his contemporaries, who, in the estimation of Dryden, Johnson, and others, put on display their ingenuity and learning, especially of metaphysics (philosophy), even in love poems. The term, however, has stuck, and in general, metaphysical poetry is characterized by its use of elaborate conceits

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