A Silent God in John Donne's "Holy Sonnets"
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 04:31:57
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 8 pages (2233 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 8 pages (2233 words)
Readers since the middle seventeenth century have found the sermons and poetry of John Donne to be rather controversial. Being an Anglican priest, readers may expect his work to evince the progress toward one's sense of a caring God, faith, and spiritual health. However, these expectations fall short very quickly. The works of John Donne rarely, if at all, seem to give some impetus towards spiritual progression and a closeness with God. Most of his
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Janyce Marson.
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