It is also fabular fiction,
Donnean seduction poetry, and the
It exists as one of a handful of
Donnean lyrics which maintains an impossibility of expression at the same time that, by maintaining that impossibility, it expresses the very thing it deems impossible to express.
The second thematic grouping of essays, comprised of studies of Philips's "innovation and influence in poetic and political form" (35), begins with Paula Luscocco's reprinted essay, "Inventing the English Sappho: Katherine Philips's
Donnean Poetry" (153-86).
Among their topics are Katherine Philips and the post-courtly coterie, restoring Orinda's face: Puritan iconoclasm and Philips' Poems as royalist remonumentalization, inventing the English Sappho: her
Donnean poetry, the body of the friend and the woman writer: Katherine Philips' absence from Alan Bray's The Friend, and Philips and women's queer spaces.
Analysis of the
Donnean philosophy of love presented in Shesher Kobita--in particular, of the new "language ...
And in the second part of the year Wyatt was allowed to make an appearance (all too often as a foretaste of
Donnean poetics), with Surrey limping behind.
The first is so strikingly apropos that one might easily imagine it to be the
Donnean origin of Wit; it is "Hymn to God, My God in My Sicknesse." For in that poem, the speaker, like Vivian Bearing, lies in the grip of a fatal disease from which he does not expect to recover.
(4) Raymond-Jean Frontain, "Reaching for the Light:
Donnean Self-Fashioning in Margaret Edson's W;t," Publications of the Missouri Philological Association 25 (2000), 1.
It's no accident that "The Computation" ends, as do so many other
Donnean numbers, in an oxymoron--in this case, in a dead immortal (or dead ghost).
The instancing of one phrase from 'The Will' in Cowley's preface as showing 'influence', rather than the ten or so poems in The Mistress (1647) which patently use
Donnean ideas as springboards, betrays a very reductive approach.