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An Occasion for John Donne's "The Lamentations of Jeremy".(Critical Essay)

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From: ANQ
Date: 19990622
Author:HUNTER, WILLIAM B.

The article examines the origin and meaning of 17th-century British poet John Donne's poem "The Lamentations of Jeremy." The poem is related to the Old Testament text of lamentations and describes Donne's feelings of bereavement.

Among all of John Donne's major poems, "The Lamentations of Jeremy" has been almost completely ignored. Critics have found little to write about it except as it seems to depend on other versions of the biblical text--primarily on the Vulgate, the Geneva, the Tremellius (with which it accords "for the most part" according to phrases in its subtitle), and the ...

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