Selected Poetry
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Book Description
John Donne's love poetry is a magnetic mix of the soul singing, intellectual rigor, and the lascivious prod. Seductions abound, but go hand in hand with metaphors of science, discovery, and conquest: "License my roving hands, and let them go, / Behind, before, above, between, below. / O my America! my new-found-land, / My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned ..." In "The Flea," the speaker ... More
Book Information
Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
Binding | Paperback (22 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 304 |
ISBN-10 | 0199539065 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0199539062 |
Publication Date | 01/15/2009 |
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About John Carey (Editor) : John Carey is a published editor. Some of the published credits of John Carey include Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics), Selected Poetry (Oxford World's Classics).
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