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Mr. Gunn, once just another Auden, has now turned towards Donne and Antony. In the process, he has developed a sustained unity of expression.
Those readers who insist upon filing contemporary writers to the pigeonhole of a convenient tradition will have no difficulty in detecting the intellectual habits of the school of Donne in such poems as "The Value of Gold." To expand categories slightly, Mr. Gunn's whole milieu resembles that early-seventeenth...
The fact is that Harvard plays up scholarship at the expense of creativity, and most students accept this, either not creating at all or riddling their work with signs of scholasticism (what percentage of Advocate poems refer to the Metaphysical Poets, in extenso?). This position--that there is little or...
"I think Vaughan is a little bit of a bore," Caroline said. "Really, the language has deteriorated so much since Donne."
Author of several books on Shakespeare and instructor in the summer Shakespeare course, Kermode has written on Donne, Milton, Yeats, and Wallace Stevens.