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A. E. Dyson: Donne: Songs and Sonets
(Now available)For A level and undergraduate students, and the general reader. Published as a tribute to the author.
Softback. 60 pages. £5.99.
Published as a tribute to the late A. E. Dyson, one of the major literary critics of the late twentieth century, this volume for A level students, undergraduates and the general reader is an edited transcript of the two lectures on Donne he recorded for The Critical Forum.
There are detailed analyses of eleven of Donne’s most famous love poems, with the text of each printed in full: ‘The Good-Morrow’; ‘Goe, and catch a falling starre’; ‘Twicknam Garden’; ‘The Extasie’; ‘Aire and Angels’; ‘The Relique’; ‘The Dreame’; ‘A Valediction: forbidding mourning’; ‘The Canonization’; ‘The Expiration’; ‘A Nocturnall on S. Lucies day’.
A. E. Dyson, a founder of The Critical Forum, was Honorary Fellow at the University of East Anglia. He was joint editor of the Critical Quarterly and General Editor of Macmillan’s Casebook series. His many publications included The Crazy Fabric, The Inimitable Dickens, Between Two Worlds: Aspects of Literary Form, Riding the Echo: Yeats, Eliot and R. S. Thomas and The Fifth Dimension.
Copyright © The Critical Forum, 2007.
