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748. Aizawa, Yoshihisa. “John Donne no ‘Shunen Tsuitoshi’ Ko (8)” [A Study of John Donne’s Anniversaries (8)]. Jinbungakka Ronshu [Bulletin of the Faculty of Humanities, Ibaraki University] 20: 229–61. Part 8 of an eight-part series of articles . Analyzes the structure and meaning of the Anniversaries as occasional poetry, as poems related to the “epitaphium recens” and the “epitaphium anniversarium” traditions, as meditative poetry, and as epideictic poetry. Discusses the mutual relationships among FirAn, FunEl, and SecAn. Concludes that Elizabeth Drury’s death gave Donne an occasion to vent his pent-up feelings and to confirm his way of living as well as his understanding of the meaning of life. 749. Bachrach, A. G. H. “Engeland en Huygens in zijn levensavond,” in Veelzijdigheid als levensvorm: Facetten van Constantijn Huygens’ leven en werk. Een bundel studies ter gelegenheidvan zijn driehonderste sterfdag, ed. A. Th. van Deursen, E. K. Grootes, and P. E. L. Verkuyl, 65–78. Deventer Studies, 2. Deventer: Sub Rosa. Traces Huygens’s English contacts from his last visit to London between November 1670 and October 1671 until his death in 1687. Mentions Huygens’s purchase of a number of books in London on that visit (described in a letter to Sébastian Chièze on 10 December 1670) and points out that, when he died, Huygens appears to have owned over four hundred English books or books printed in England, including several editions of Donne’s poems. Notes that Huygens describes his translation of Ecst as a “paraphrastikòmteron,” and that in his dedicatory poem to Maria Tesselschade , Huygens calls his translations of Donne “shadows” that differ from their original as night does from day. 750. Bachrach, A. G. H. “Luna Mendax: Some Reflections on Moon-Voyages in Early Seventeenth-Century England,” in Between Dream and Nature: Essays on Utopia and Dystopia, ed. Dominic BakerSmith and C. C. Barfoot, 70–90. DQR Studies in Literature 2, ed. F. G. A. M. Aarts, J. Bakker, C. C. Barfoot, M. Buning, G. Janssens, W. J. Meys. Amsterdam: Rodopi. Comments very briefly on Donne’s interest in astronomy, noting, for instance, that in Ignatius his acquaintance with Galileo’s Sidereus Nuntius and Kepler’s Somnium is evident. Says that “[n]o English poet showed more direct response to the new astronomy than John Donne,” noting, in particular , his interest in “the notion of a plurality of worlds.” Observes that in his later years “Donne’s interest in astronomy seems to have declined” (74). 751. Barnstone, Willis. “John Donne.” SR 95: 553–54. An original poem addressed to Donne that uses allusions to several of his poems. 752. Beal, Peter. “More Donne Manuscripts .” JDJ 6: 213–18. 1987 249 250 1987 Lists manuscript sources relating to Donne’s works that have come to light since the publication of Beal’s Index of English Literary Manuscripts, vol. 1 (1980), including newly discovered main manuscripts as well as newly found manuscript copies of individual poems, new locations of previously listed manuscripts, and corrigenda. Notes that “[o]ne’s conviction becomes only more confirmed that Donne was the most popular English poet of the first half of the seventeenth century” (218). 753. Beck, Joyce Short. “John Donne and William Dunbar: Poet-Satirists of the British Court.” MedPers 2: 25–37. While not minimizing the classical and patristic influences on Donne as a satirist, comments on the influence of the satiric medieval English and Scottish poetic and homiletic traditions on his Satyres and verse epistles. Compares Donne to William Dunbar, Alexander Barclay, John Skelton, and William Langland as a satirist and to Sir Thomas Wyatt as a writer of verse epistles. Relates Donne’s HWKiss and Wyatt’s “Myne owne John Poynz” to the medieval tradition of the “scholastic and satirical sermo” (32). Discusses how Donne follows Wyatt “in writing Scots-English verse letters which synthesize the native British satiricprophetic tradition with the classical and medieval epistolary style” (36–37). 754. Bernard-Cheyre, Catherine. “Les Métaphores de l’amoureux dans la poésie pétrarquiste anglaise du XVIe siècle, ou les jeux du miroir,” in Actes du Congrés d’Amiens, 1982, ed. Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur, 55–63. Paris: Didier. Traces the elaborate, often playful, uses of the mirror and mirror imagery in English Renaissance love poetry from the troubadours of Provence and especially Petrarch to the poets of late sixteenth century England. Briefly comments on the uses of...

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