ENG 2105 Lecture 15: ENG 1122 - Lecture 15.docx
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Their readiness to assume that their readership is ready to meet with real complexity: poetry and other forms. John donne circulation of poems initially not in print form, but in manuscript copies where interested parties close to the world of. Dunn copied them and made the most of them. The frustration of his hopes of a secular career, and his being urged into the ministerial career in which he enjoyed great success. Dunn is plainly taking it over for the purpose of his religious poetry the emotion and violence of the erotic lyric, praying. He is adapting a familiar genre, quatrain sonnet, for the devotion to his religious poetry. Wants a violence done to him by god to transform him and make him ready for salvation. His flawed, sinful character, begging god to break in, smash his war, batter his heart.