The Influence of John Donne: His Uncollected Seventeenth Century Printed Verse; <br>John Donne: Pseudo-Martyr

Donne, disease and doctors. Medical allusions in the works of the seventeenth-century poet and divine.

IN his poem 'Whispers of Immortality' Mr. T. S. Eliot places John Donne in the same category as the dramatist John Webster as a man who was 'much possessed by death and saw the skull beneath the skin'. Superficially, the preoccupation with death ofboth authors suggests a common depressive disposition. Nevertheless, Donne wears his rue with a difference, and the melancholy he exhibits is as char...

Prescription and devotion: the Reverend Doctor Donne and the learned Doctor Mayerne--two seventeenth-century records of epidemic typhus fever.

IN THE LATE autumn of 1623, the poet John Donne, then Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, contracted typhus which was sweeping London in epidemic.' For almost three weeks Donne suffered a near-mortal fever, visited by his physicians and nursed by a few faithful servants. More fortunate than many, Donne did not die of the disease, and by early January, confined to a chair by his bedside, he had begun ...

The Mannerist painter and Donne : a correlation of the arts

the Seventeenth Verse of Surah Al- Mominun

The term “seven ways” in the seventeenth verse of Surah Al-Mominun which has only been used in Quran once is generally interpreted as “seven heavens” or “seven overhead ways” and it has become the origin of some doubts. Exclusive attention to one meaning and ignoring the others, and paying no heed to the context of this verse and its collocations are possibly the origin of this viewpoint. Consi...

A seventeenth-century German barber-surgeon and his patients.

PATIENTS AND HEALERS In recent years some attempts have been made to break away from a physiciancentred view of medical history and to establish as a counterweight a patient-oriented history or, more precisely, "a sick people's or sufferer's history (for the very word 'patient' seems dangerously redolent of professional medical relations)",' as Roy Porter, one of the protagonists of this kind o...