@inbook{1b92f3d0900442f6bbb92b5b33ead17d,
title = "{\textquoteleft}Where hearts should lie: John Donne{\textquoteright}s posthumous selves{\textquoteright}",
abstract = "Biographer R.C. Bald concluded that John Donne “must be the earliest major poet in English of whom an adequate biography is possible”, and Izaak Walton{\textquoteright}s contemporary account in his Life of Dr John Donne has since been followed by a number of literary biographies of the English poet. This chapter reviews the relationship between biographical and literary critical studies of this writer, identifying three broad trends: firstly (from Walton to Edmund Gosse) a focus on the religious and secular life of Donne, with sometimes speculative literary criticism; secondly, the exclusion of biographical information characteristic of twentieth-century approaches to Donne{\textquoteright}s writing, such as T.S. Eliot{\textquoteright}s “The Metaphysical Poets” and Cleanth Brooks{\textquoteright} New Critical reading of “The Canonization”; finally, more recent attempts to reintegrate Donne{\textquoteright}s life and writing through a recognition of his intended readerships and sources of inspiration, such as his coterie and his wife Ann. ",
keywords = "John Donne English Poetry Literary Biography",
author = "Tim Hancock",
year = "2018",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1002/9781118896433.ch24",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781118896297",
series = "Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd",
pages = "405--422",
editor = "Bradford, {Richard }",
booktitle = "A Companion to Literary Biography",
address = "United Kingdom",
}