the _LXXX Sermons_, the
nineteenth
sermon,
page 189.
page 189.
John Donne
His mistress is 'my America,
my Newfoundland', his East and West Indies; he sees, at least in
imagination,
a Tenarif, or higher Hill
Rise so high like a Rocke, that one might thinke
The floating Moone would shipwracke there, and sinke;
he sails to heaven, the Pacific Ocean, the Fortunate Islands, by the
North-West Passage, or through the Straits of Magellan.
In attempting to illustrate these and other aspects of Donne's
erudition as displayed in his poetry it has been my endeavour not so
much to trace them to their remote sources as to discover the form
in which he was familiar with a doctrine or a theory. Next to his own
works, therefore, I have had recourse to contemporary or but slightly
later works, as Burton's _Anatomy of Melancholy_ and Browne's
_Pseudodoxia Epidemica_. I have made constant use of the _Summa
Theologiae_ of St. Thomas Aquinas, using the edition in Migne's
_Patrologiae Cursus Completus_ (1845). By Professor Picavet my
attention was called to Bouillet's translation of Plotinus's _Enneads_
with ample notes on the analogies to and developments of Neo-Platonic
thought in the Schoolmen. I have also used Zeller's _Philosophie der
Griechen_, on Plotinus, and Harnack's _History of Dogma_. Throughout,
my effort has been rather to justify, elucidate, and suggest, than to
accumulate parallels.
*** In the following notes the _LXXX Sermons &c. _ (1640), _Fifty
Sermons &c. _ (1649), and _XXVI Sermons &c. _ (1669/70) are referred to
thus:--80. 19. 189, i. e.
the _LXXX Sermons_, the nineteenth sermon,
page 189. References to page and line simply of the poems are to the
first volume of this edition. References to the second are given thus,
II. p. 249.
THE PRINTER TO &c.
See _Text and Canon of Donne's Poems_, p. lix.
PAGE =1=, ll. 17-18. _it would have come to us from beyond the Seas_:
e. g. from Holland.
ll. 19-20. _My charge and pains in procuring of it_: A significant
statement as to the source of the edition.
my Newfoundland', his East and West Indies; he sees, at least in
imagination,
a Tenarif, or higher Hill
Rise so high like a Rocke, that one might thinke
The floating Moone would shipwracke there, and sinke;
he sails to heaven, the Pacific Ocean, the Fortunate Islands, by the
North-West Passage, or through the Straits of Magellan.
In attempting to illustrate these and other aspects of Donne's
erudition as displayed in his poetry it has been my endeavour not so
much to trace them to their remote sources as to discover the form
in which he was familiar with a doctrine or a theory. Next to his own
works, therefore, I have had recourse to contemporary or but slightly
later works, as Burton's _Anatomy of Melancholy_ and Browne's
_Pseudodoxia Epidemica_. I have made constant use of the _Summa
Theologiae_ of St. Thomas Aquinas, using the edition in Migne's
_Patrologiae Cursus Completus_ (1845). By Professor Picavet my
attention was called to Bouillet's translation of Plotinus's _Enneads_
with ample notes on the analogies to and developments of Neo-Platonic
thought in the Schoolmen. I have also used Zeller's _Philosophie der
Griechen_, on Plotinus, and Harnack's _History of Dogma_. Throughout,
my effort has been rather to justify, elucidate, and suggest, than to
accumulate parallels.
*** In the following notes the _LXXX Sermons &c. _ (1640), _Fifty
Sermons &c. _ (1649), and _XXVI Sermons &c. _ (1669/70) are referred to
thus:--80. 19. 189, i. e.
the _LXXX Sermons_, the nineteenth sermon,
page 189. References to page and line simply of the poems are to the
first volume of this edition. References to the second are given thus,
II. p. 249.
THE PRINTER TO &c.
See _Text and Canon of Donne's Poems_, p. lix.
PAGE =1=, ll. 17-18. _it would have come to us from beyond the Seas_:
e. g. from Holland.
ll. 19-20. _My charge and pains in procuring of it_: A significant
statement as to the source of the edition.
