"Meditation and the Structure of Donne's "Holy Sonnets

In recent years two important works dealing with Donne's Sonnets have appeared. I am referring of course to Miss Gardner's edition of The Divine Poems and to The Poetry of Meditation by Professor Louis L. Martz. Mr. Martz moves far beyond the scope of Miss Gardner's critical work, tracing the meditative tradition in poetry throughout the seventeenth century. The chief accomplishments of Miss Gardner's work are a regrouping of the poems and a thorough annotation. It is interesting to note that both Miss Gardner and Professor Martz reached independently several conclusions in regard to the structure of the Holy Sonnets

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