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John Donne: The Reformed Soul.(Book review)

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From: Harper's Magazine
Date: 20070501
Author:Leonard, John

JOHN DONNE: THE REFORMED SOUL (Norton, $35) is lively despite itself. Considering his raucous times, equally divided between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the poet and preacher wasn't really up to much--one stint of soldiering; one long marriage; one dead brother; one unregenerate mother; a number of erotic poems and satires that he kept from being published; a greater number of astonishing sermons and Holy Sonnets, all of which would find print; many letters seeking favors, appointments, or a loan; and a tubercular death at age fifty-eight. Throughout it all, of ...

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