The Enfranchisement of the ‘In-Mate Soule’: Self-Knowledge and Death in Donne’s Anniversaries

The paradoxical nature of John Donne’s treatment of self-knowledge is nowhere more apparent than in two of his most important long poems, which are known as the Anniversaries. Why does Donne variously present self-knowledge as a near impossibility, a defining attribute, a valuable (if, in some cases...

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Main Author: Smith, Suzanne (Author)
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Published: Oxford University Press 2010
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 313-330
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