John Donne and Contemporary Poetry

Judith Scherer Herz is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Concordia University. She has written on Donne, Milton, Shakespeare, and other early modern writers, including essays on Donne and twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry. She has also written on Bloomsbury writers, including several books on E. M. Forster as well as articles on Forster and on Leonard Woolf.

• Introduction: Looking for, Listening for Donne.- The History of the Donne and Contemporary Poetry Project.- On the Road with Donne: An Idiosyncratic Pilgrimage ‘Per Fretrum Febris’:The Diseased Body in John Donne and Brett Foster.- Seven Poems.- Poem: The Plexiglass Wall with Commentary: Donne and the Vital Verb.- Reading Donne: A Sentimental Journey.- Poems: Sonnets 1-14.- What’s Done is Donne and How Can I Find God Now: Poems from The Volcano Sequence.- Aubades and Epithalamia.- Poems: Bird of Fire; The Double Death of Orpheus from The Ground.- The Sunne Rising, Felinity.- Poem: Musing.- Heaney, Donne and the Boldness of Love.- Quiver, Chatter, Purple Jinx: On Donne, Translation and the Psalms.- Donne and the Reign of Figures.- Turn, Return, Revolve: John Donne’s Kinetic Poetics.