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John Donne: Man of Flesh and Spirit.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

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From: Church History
Date: 20021201
Author:Hovey, Kenneth Alan

By David L. Edwards. London: Continuum, 2001. xiv + 368 pp. $29.95 cloth.

This book by a British provost, dean, canon, and chaplain, now retired, is targeted at a general, not a scholarly, audience and thus contains neither primary research nor footnotes. It is divided into three parts: a critical review of Donne's previous biographers and related critics, a summary of Donne's life based avowedly on R. C. Bald's biography of 1970, and a survey of Donne's poetry arranged by topic to which an overview of themes in Donne's sermons is attached. In the critical review Edwards ...

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