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Donne's "dialogue of one".(Donne: The Reformed Soul)(Book review)

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From: New Criterion
Date: 20070101
Author:Dean, Paul

 
          On a huge hill, 
   Cragged and steep, Truth stands, and he that 
                                              will 
   Reach her, about must, and about must go, 
   And what the hill's suddenness resists, win so. 

These lines from the third of John Donne's satires, written sometime in the 1590s, express and enact rhythmically the individual's effort to discover a spiritual home. For Donne this was a process of strenuous grappling which lasted all his life (1572-1631). Born a Catholic, related on his mother's side to Sir Thomas More, he saw his uncle Jasper, a Jesuit, ...

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