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BIOTHANATOS ( morir de forma violenta ) fué escrita en 1608 y editada en 1647. Es una obra poco convencional sólo en parte autobiográfica, sobre el suicidio, que acaba siendo un verdadero tratado envolvente y sistematico , una " anatomia del suicidio" a medio camino entre la reflexion vertiginosa y la obsesion por atesorar y dar vuelta a todo tipo de opiniones sobre el homicidio de si mismo.Asi que habla del derecho y de la naturaleza, de las virtudes morales o de la ley de Dios,pues quiere valorar los motivos por los cuales este singular homicida puede ser justificado en la medida que sea

Nos preguntamos por el sentido, inaclarado, de la expresión “poesía metafísica” con que se define habitualmente la obra de John Donne, la esencia de su obra, en la medida en que Donne es considerado

This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Extasie," and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie," "His Parting From Her," and "To His Mistris Going to Bed." Presented as well are Donne's satires, epigrams, verse letters, and holy sonnets, along with his most ambitious and important poems, the Anniversaries. In addition, there is a generous sampling of Donne's prose, including many of his private letters; Ignatius His Conclave, a satiric onslaught on the Jesuits; excerpts from Biathanatos, his celebrated defense of suicide; and his most famous sermons, concluding with the final "Death's Duell." "We have only to read [Donne]," wrote Virginia Woolf, "to submit to the sound of that passionate and penetrating voice, and his figure rises again across the waste of the years more erect, more imperious, more inscrutable than any of his time."

Las Elegías, al igual que las Canciones y poemas de amor, son obras de juventud del poeta, desenfadadas, provocativas, libertinas incluso en ocasiones, que circularon en copias manuscritas pero que no se imprimieron hasta despues de muerto su autor, dada la relevancia de su posicion social en los ultimos años de su vida. La diferencia que hay entre su poesia y la de sus contemporaneos radica en la verdad de las experiencias amorosas de las que nace, en su libertad frente a los modelos literarios preestablecidos y en su proclamacion de un erotismo sin trabas, que no deja de resultarnos insolito si lo comparamos, por ejemplo, con la forzosa pacateria de sus coetaneos españoles.

It has been argued that no poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of emotions and poetic moods.

This volume collects together four of celebrated poet and preacher John Donnes most passionate sermons on death.Dean of St Pauls, John Donne was feted in his day not just as a poet but also as an inspired and energetic preacher, and these four extended meditations on death are amongst his most powerful and dramatic writings. The magnificentDeaths Duel is published here alongside his Lent sermons for the two previous years (1629 and 1630), along with his Easter Day sermon of 1619, preached on the occasion of the Kings sickness.Together they create a fascinating study of early seventeenth-century attitudes towards death.

This collection of John Donne's poetry contains love poems, elegies, metaphysical verse, and offers sections from the "Satires" and the "Epithalamions". It includes a biographical narrative placing each poem in context and illuminating its significance.

Whether sharing his anxieties about writing, consoling bereaved friends, complaining about the meanness of a patron, or defending himself against malicious gossip, John Donne reveals himself in these letters with a directness that can be found nowhere else in his writings. The 95 included letters, dating from the late 1590s until a short time before Donne''s death, constitute approximately half of his surviving correspondence and are addressed to a variety of recipients, revealing his role as not only a poet but as a father, son, husband, friend, suitor, courtier, and pastor. Although what the letters reveal is far from edifying, they corroborate the impression created by Donne''s better-known writings that he was one of the most remarkable figures the English Renaissance produced.

En 1921, T. S. Eliot definió a John Donne con una frase: "Poseía un mecanismo de sensibilidad capaz de asimilar cualquier clase de experiencias". Y así es, nadie con más amplitud y variedad de registros, en el no se excluye nada, todo se hermana y es asociable, todo le sirve para sus asombrosas comparaciones: la estrella y el insecto, el silogismo y la raiz de la mandragora, la ironia y la muerte, el deseo carnal y el desengaño, el cumplido galante y el horror de las ultimas preguntas. La maldicion de los poetas dificiles son sus interpretes, en el pecado carnal llevan la penitencia. Pero como toda poesia, la de Donne es para ganar lectores que acepten entrar en su mundo bello y extraño, que va a buscar insolitas resonancias en la medula misma del lenguaje. O nos arrastra con su vehemencia o es mejor dejarlo correr, abandonarle en manos de su sabihondos comentaristas. Carlos Pujol.

This much-heralded Irish poet deals with themes of Irish life, and with the political strife that has permeated the world of this other Seamus of Irish letters.

Nos preguntamos por el sentido, inaclarado, de la expresión “poesía metafísica” con que se define habitualmente la obra de John Donne, la esencia de su obra, en la medida en que Donne es considerado

El tema de este volumen es el amor. En su visión, el amor es el único sentido que justifica el paso del hombre en la vida; en esa dimensión, el binomio amor y poesía se potencia al fusionar sus sentidos comunes, al grado de convertir la actividad erotica en un ejercicio espiritual.