品评颂扬与反思17世纪的多恩研究-文学.PDF

17 17 20 16 17 17 17 17 2011BW137 Title: Arbitrariness, Admiration and Assessment: John Donne Studies in the Seventeenth Century Abstract: In the 17th century, John Donne studies witnessed a concentrated discussion of his wit and conceit as well as a marked progress from personal appreciation via lavish admiration to critical assessment. While the last proves a harbinger of theoretical disputes in the 20th century, the first two reveal a turn against the lyrical tradition that, by the end of the 16th century, had become extremely gentle, graceful, refi ned and full of music. Inadequate, shallow and fragmental as they were, the achievements in the 17th century somehow mirrored the basic trend and milieu of that era. Particular signifi cance went to Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, and John Dryden, whose originality and insights were to exercise a profound infl uence on Donne studies throughout the centuries to come. Current studies of Donne, including the focus in subject matter, analytical approaches, general trends, classifi cation of Donne’s poems, and key terms of speculation, are, to a great extant, a continuation and a testimony of the tradition already established i