Religious Poetry and Prose - Christian Classic Books for Spiritual Growth & Devotional Reading | Perfect for Bible Study, Church Groups & Personal Reflection
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Combining wit, passion, and intellect, John Donne's poetry forged new paths in British literature. When, at age 38, Donne entered the Anglican priesthood, he directed his passion for women and material goods to his divine lover, Christ. The great metaphysical poet engaged theological controversies, the mysteries of theological doctrine, and a persistent fear of death with the same deep powers of intellect and wit that he had brought to his secular poetry. Readers will recognize in Donne's religious writings such well-known phrases as "No man is an island" and "Death be not proud." The poems, sermon selections, prayers, and devotions in this volume record the poet's struggle to reconcile the passions of the flesh with the demands of the spirit, as well as the poet's exalted love of Christ.
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Unfortunately, the subtitle of the book, "edited and mildly modernized" is too mildly stated! It is heavily modernized. It's one thing to remove some of the thees and thous, especially from the prose sections, but it goes much further than that. In the poetry section, it restructures sentences and changes words so that poems that ought to rhyme, no longer do. For sonnets, that's horrible since the rhyme structure is critical to the sonnet form of Donne.And there are editing mistakes. For example, on the very first poem, "The Crown", there is an entire line missing (the second to last line). And #4, "The Temple", has an extra line (lines 7 & 8 should be one line, but it's been butchered into two lines that throw off the sonnet).Also, Donne's poems have great emotional intensity. Somehow these modernizations manage to suppress that intensity and make them pretty mellow. That's really too bad.It's a nice attempt, but it just doesn't work.
