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Dr. Donne & Sir Edmund Gosse.(John Donne)

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From: New Criterion
Date: 19980301
Author:Bernstein, Jeremy

Sir Edmund Gosse's biography of John Donne has helped renew the connection between literature and discovery. Personal experience, science, natural history and relationships interconnect to forge both subject matter and expression. The Donne biography rendered by Gosse provides contextuality for many of the poet's works, including correspondence which gives insight into Donne's perspective.

In 1917 Albert Einstein published a paper on cosmology--indeed the first significant modern paper on the subject--that was sufficiently implausible that he felt compelled at one point to write, "In the ...

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