Date of Award
Summer 1951
Document Type
Thesis - Restricted
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Maloney, Michael
Second Advisor
Archer, Jerome W.
Third Advisor
Hamm, Victor M.
Abstract
The intellectual and scholastic nature of Donne's poetry is generally recognized by critics, and since 1870, when A.B. Grosart's edition began the modern interest in Donne, there have been numerous investigations of metaphysical imagery. It is my purpose in this essay to continue the inquiry concerning Donne's imagery and to make an exhaustive study of it. My plan is to tabulate and analyze the ten basic images which Donne most frequently uses in his songs and sonnets, elegies and satires, and religious poems, and to demonstrate the effectiveness of his application of imagery and the relationship of imagery that exists between the basic images as used in the different poetic genres.
Recommended Citation
Sanguinetti, Mario J., "Donne's Basic Imagery: Its Sources, Use, and Effectiveness" (1951). Master's Theses (1922-2009) Access restricted to Marquette Campus. 1513.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theses/1513