{"id":9869,"date":"2010-03-31T00:59:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T04:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=9869"},"modified":"2010-03-31T00:59:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T04:59:08","slug":"john-donne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/03\/31\/john-donne\/","title":{"rendered":"John Donne"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Donne-shroud\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The portrait commissioned by Donne in his shroud during his last months
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

On this date in 1631 John Donne<\/a> died at age 59.<\/p>\n

Holy Sonnet X<\/p>\n

Death be not proud, though some have call\u00e8d thee
\nMighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
\nFor, those, whom thou think’st, thou dost overthrow,
\nDie not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
\nFrom rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,
\nMuch pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
\nAnd soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
\nRest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
\nThou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
\nAnd dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,
\nAnd poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
\nAnd better than thy stroake; why swell’st thou then;
\nOne short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
\nAnd death shall be no more, death thou shalt die.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Frye on Donne in Words with Power<\/em>:<\/p>\n

In The Great Code<\/em> I used the word “interpenetration” (167-8\/189) tp describe this fluidity of personality in its complete form.\u00a0 The word “love” means perhaps too many things in English and for many has an oversentimental sound, but it seems impossible to dissociate the conceptions of spiritual authority of love. The capacity to merge with another person’s being without violating it seems to be at the centre of love, just as the will to dominate one conscious soul-will externally by another is the centre of all tyranny and hatred.\u00a0 John Donne uses a beautiful figure in this connection based on the metaphor of an individual life as a book.\u00a0 The spiritual world, he says, is a library “where all books lie open together.” (CW, 26, 117-18)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Emma Thompson and Holy Sonnet X in Mike Nichols’s film adaptation of Wit<\/em><\/a> after the jump.<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J4qGH4mNQng<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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