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Can't buy me love: money, gender, and colonialism in Donne's erotic verse *.(17th-century poet John Donne)(Critical Essay)

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From: Criticism
Date: 20010322
Author:Raman, Shankar

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SUPPRESSED BY THE LICENSER from the 1633 printed text of John Donne's poetry, the elegy "Loves Progress" seems also to have escaped sustained critical discussion, despite the twentieth-century revival of Donne studies. The comparative neglect does not, I think, derive simply from its being an "outrageous poem," (1) but from a sense that the poem is perhaps too transparent. In the related--and much examined--elegy, "Going to Bed," an intricate and provocative equation of physical consummation with religious ecstasy complicates the exuberant colonial metaphorics of "My ...

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