The Soul of Wit: A Study of John Donne

achieved amatory angels appear argued argument artistic baroque beauty become body C. S. Lewis Caravaggio central century Christian Church concept contemporary contrast Counter-Reformation create critics death devotional divine Donne's poetry doth dream earlier earth El Greco elements emotional eternity experience eyes fact faith figure final flea flesh Giuseppe Arcimboldo Greco harmony hath heaven Helen Gardner High Renaissance Holy Sonnet human humour ideal imagery imaginative inner intellectual Jacobean Jesuit Jesus John Donne less libertine literary logic lovers mannerism mannerist art Mario Praz means medieval meditation merely metaphor metaphysical Metaphysical Poetry mood mortal movement nature Neoplatonism opening lines painting paradox passage perspective philosophy physical poem poet poetic reader reason religious Renaissance scene scepticism secular sense Sermons soul speaker spiritual stanza suggests Sunne symbol T. S. Eliot technique thee theme thou thought Tintoretto tion tradition truth universe validity verse vision visual word