John Donne: ‘Air and angels’

Swinden, Patrick

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8705.1979.tb01685.x

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“…They are ours, though they are not wee, Wee are The intelligences, they the spheare. (49)(50)(51)(52) A similar idea is put forth in Air and Angels where, as Patrick Swinden (1979) argues, by comparing himself with the intelligence, the lover tells his beloved that 'You give my love a geographical position, a home, and I give your love a sense of direction and purpose" and that they have "different but equal contribution" in their love relationship (p. 52). This mutual necessity Donne is concerned with becomes manifest also in Going to Bed, where he describes his mistress as his America and kingdom.…”

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