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This offers a brief personal reminiscence of Donne’s poetry, initially encountered by the author in the late 1960s, and a subsequent survey of Donne’s selected influence on later poets, with special attention given to the Australian poets, A.D. Hope and Stephen Edgar, and the latter poet’s “Nocturnal,” a response to Donne’s “A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day.” The essay turns on the experiential aspect of Donne’s poetry. The discussion focuses, in the context of T.S. Eliot’s remarks, on three of Donne’s greatest and most immediate love poems: “The Good-Morrow,” “A Valediction: Of Weeping,” and the sonnet, “She whom I Loved.”
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Post, J.F.S. (2017). Reading Donne: A Sentimental Journey. In: Herz, J. (eds) John Donne and Contemporary Poetry. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55300-9_7
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