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- Title: Donne's Hawkings (John Donne) (Critical Essay)
- Author : 1500-1900 Studies in English Literature
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 98 KB
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During the first decade of the seventeenth century, John Donne used letters and journeys to stitch the disparate pieces of his life together. His secret marriage to Ann More in December 1601 had led to his dismissal from the service of Sir Thomas Egerton--the Lord Keeper and Ann's uncle--and the frustration of his hopes for preferment. Donne and his wife were reduced to dependence on her relatives and forced to live in the countryside away from London--first at Pyrford, from 1602 to 1606, and later at Mitcham, from 1606 to 1610. (1) In these difficult circumstances, Donne's correspondence took on a central importance, both as the medium through which he maintained friendships and sought out patronage and as a form of imaginative escape. His letters from this period often emphasize the sites in which they were written, describing the countryside as a place of banishment or exile from which he could turn his attention only when writing to his correspondents. Donne's attempts to bridge this distance, however, were practical as well as epistolary. His search for a place and his need for company led not only to an extensive correspondence, but also to a semiperipatetic lifestyle, which divided his time between London and his family home in the country. It is during this period that Donne first begins to mention his habit of composing while riding on horseback. (2) Perhaps surprisingly, Donne describes the interstitial space of the highway as one of his "two ordinary forges of Letters"--a site suited, like the study, to the act of composition. On the road, freed from the distracting cares of society and family, Donne could be "contracted, and inverted" into himself, and, thus, able to give his full attention to both composition and addressee. (3) His portrayal of writing on horseback draws attention to the simultaneous presence of correspondent and site of writing. In a verse letter to Sir Henry Goodyere, for instance, Donne calls up his addressee and makes him present as a riding companion, telling him.
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