This essay examines the epitaphs and elegies written by Donne's friends and included in the first edition of the poet's poems. It aims to show that this edition recorded the collective biography of the member of the national community as it was performed on the day of his funeral. The parishioners of St Dustan's, some of whom also belonged to the enlightened Great Tew Circle, gathered to mourn and celebrate the Dr in Divinity, trying to bring together the two halves of his life as a love poet and a preacher. As was customary, they read their elegies and epitaphs, always intertextually referring to the various personae Donne had created in his poems, in the famous final portrait, and to which he alluded in his gift to his friends.
Il saggio esamina epitaffi e elegie scritte dagli amici di Donne ed inclusi nella prima edizione delle poesie del poeta, valendo così come riproduzione del funerale e del compianto collettivo. I parrocchiani di St. Dunstan e appartenenti al Great Tew Circle si erano riuniti per l'occasione per celebrare la vita del Dean di St Paul e del poeta, ed insieme dar senso ad una vita che, apparentemente, mostrava una frattura fra il prima e dopo conversione. Donne e la sua interpretazione della propria vita e morte sono intertestualmente richiamati nelle composizioni, mostrando efficacemente la cooperazione fra testo autobiografico e biografico.
Biografia come riscrittura e come accumulo di contributi: la prima edizione a stampa delle poesie di John Donne
Maria Grazia Dongu
2024-01-01
Abstract
This essay examines the epitaphs and elegies written by Donne's friends and included in the first edition of the poet's poems. It aims to show that this edition recorded the collective biography of the member of the national community as it was performed on the day of his funeral. The parishioners of St Dustan's, some of whom also belonged to the enlightened Great Tew Circle, gathered to mourn and celebrate the Dr in Divinity, trying to bring together the two halves of his life as a love poet and a preacher. As was customary, they read their elegies and epitaphs, always intertextually referring to the various personae Donne had created in his poems, in the famous final portrait, and to which he alluded in his gift to his friends.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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