Modern English Literature: a Short History
Modern English Literature: a Short History
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He wrote satires, epistles, elegies, sonnets, and lyrics, and although it is in the last mentioned that his beauties are most frequent, the essence of Donne, the strange personal characteristic which made him so unlike every one else, is redolent in all. He rejected whatever had pleased the Elizabethan age ; he threw the fashionable humanism to the winds ; he broke up the accepted prosody ; he aimed at a totally new method in diction, in illustration, in attitude. He was a realist, who studded ...his writings with images drawn from contempo- rary life. For grace and mellifluous floridity he substi- DONNE 123 tuted audacity, intensity, a proud and fulgurant darkness, as of an intellectual thunder-cloud.
Unfortunately, the genius of Donne was not equal to his ambition and his force. He lacked the element needed to fuse his brilliant intuitions into a classical shape. He aimed at becoming a great creative reformer, but he succeeded only in disturbing and dislocating lite- rature. He was the blind Samson in the Elizabethan gate, strong enough to pull the beautiful temple of Spenserian fancy about the ears of the worshippers, but powerless to offer them a substitute.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
He wrote satires, epistles, elegies, sonnets, and lyrics, and although it is in the last mentioned that his beauties are most frequent, the essence of Donne, the strange personal characteristic which made him so unlike every one else, is redolent in all. He rejected whatever had pleased the Elizabethan age ; he threw the fashionable humanism to the winds ; he broke up the accepted prosody ; he aimed at a totally new method in diction, in illustration, in attitude. He was a realist, who studded ...his writings with images drawn from contempo- rary life. For grace and mellifluous floridity he substi- DONNE 123 tuted audacity, intensity, a proud and fulgurant darkness, as of an intellectual thunder-cloud.
Unfortunately, the genius of Donne was not equal to his ambition and his force. He lacked the element needed to fuse his brilliant intuitions into a classical shape. He aimed at becoming a great creative reformer, but he succeeded only in disturbing and dislocating lite- rature. He was the blind Samson in the Elizabethan gate, strong enough to pull the beautiful temple of Spenserian fancy about the ears of the worshippers, but powerless to offer them a substitute.
What to read after Modern English Literature: a Short History?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Edmund William Goose to read onlineMoreLess
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