Carved in living laurel: <i>the sonnet sequence and transformations of idolatry</i>

Kambaskovic-Sawers, Danijela

doi:10.1111/j.1477-4658.2007.00365.x

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“…According to Danijela Kambaskovic´-Sawers, Daniel ''appropriates the subtext of Christ's passion to signal his speaker's suffering at the hands of the lady.'' 8 These potentially idolatrous notions are made literal in Donne's work and therefore avoid idolatry; if the beloved is God, then describing the beloved as God offers no theological affront. Donne took a secular tradition with religious overtones and made it overtly parochial.…”

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“Look into the Darkness”: Mark Jarman’s Unholy Sonnets

Steinberg

2018

Christianity & Literature

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Mark Jarman’s Unholy Sonnets work in dichotomies, drawing on both Renaissance and Modern poetics; biblical texts with complex approaches to faith, especially the books of Job and Ecclesiastes; strict form and formal experimentation. A close examination of the contradictory impulses in Jarman’s work illustrates his unique connection to John Donne, whose Holy Sonnets engage with a silent God. Jarman extends this tradition into modernity, identifying, through subtle wordplay, allusion, and religious tradition, the deficiencies of human language and the difficult but worthwhile endeavor of searching for, and occasionally finding, communion with God.

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