Heather Dubrow

John Donne, Coterie Poet

Arts & Literature

“. . . a thought-provoking and lucid volume that illuminates both the poetry and the social and autobiographical forces behind it. ". . . [Marotti] frees Donne form the constraining boxes in which many other critics have crammed his work and in so doing offers a significant new reading of his entire poetic canon.”

Learning to Jump

Arts & Literature

“We have long celebrated Sean McDowell’s many achievements as critic, teacher, editor, and executive director of the John Donne Society. This book demonstrates his impressive poetic gifts. He has an ear and a mind and a heart for sound effects, for precise and often surprising words, and for startlingly original images. Many poems explore details of the natural, everyday world, where, in these moving lyrics, the secular and spiritual interact and intersect.”