Date of Award

1963

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (M.A.)

Department

English

First Advisor

Lawrence J. Osborne

First Committee Member

Ruth Marie Fouret

Second Committee Member

Clair C. Olson

Abstract

Much has been written in the past fifty years about John Donne and his work. His troubled life and enigmatic writings have made him seem a kindred spirit to a confused age. To our day the dissonant, abrupt, and calculatedly reckless style and the concern with the harsh realities of love and death have relevance which heretofore had been misunderstood or ignored.

Pages

80

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