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Newly discovered adaptations of poems by John Donne, printed in 1662

Published inThe Review of English Studies, vol. 67, no. 281, p. 679-712
Publication date2016
Abstract

A duodecimo volume published in 1662 with the title The Art of Courtship appends a pamphlet, called The New Accademy [sic] of Complements, with a number of previously undiscovered adaptations of poems by John Donne. They are based on eleven poems from the Songs and Sonnets of undoubted authenticity: ‘Air and Angels', ‘The Apparition', ‘The Broken Heart', ‘The Ecstasy', ‘The Indifferent', ‘A Jet Ring Sent', ‘Love's Alchemy' and ‘The Curse' (adapted into one poem), ‘The Message', ‘Song, Sweetest Love', and ‘Woman's Constancy'; two elegies, ‘The Anagram' and ‘His Parting from Her'; and two non-canonical poems first included in Donne's Poems in 1635: ‘Song, Soul's Joy' and ‘Song, Dear Love'. One poem, which was first printed in the fourth edition of Donne's Poems of 1649 and whose authenticity has sometimes been doubted, ‘The Token', is included without adaptation. This article prints and briefly discusses the poems based on Donne's and contextualizes the book in which they first appeared.

Keywords
  • John Donne
  • Songs and Sonnets
  • Poems
  • Adaptation
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ERNE, Lukas Christian. Newly discovered adaptations of poems by John Donne, printed in 1662. In: The Review of English Studies, 2016, vol. 67, n° 281, p. 679–712. doi: 10.1093/res/hgv106
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