《John Donne_s Poetic Philosophy of Love》.pdfVIP

John Donnes Poetic Philosophy of Love By Dr. David Naugle Stand still, and I will read to thee, A lecture, love, in loves philosophy. —John Donne, “Lecture upon the Shadow” For the enormously complex and vexed John Donne (1572-1631), the one in whom all “contraries meet,” (Holy Sonnet 18), life was love—the love of women in his early life, then the love of his wife (Ann