Emblem and icon in John Donne's poetry and prose

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The tensile, even contradictory, qualities of Donne's writing may have reflected as much the ambiguous texture of the artistic society around him as they did the tumult of his own psyche. This book explores the correspondences between the iconic and emblematic currents of the age and Donne's poetry and prose. Through close readings of Elizabethan, Jacobean and Carolean signs and sign systems, coupled with a cogent attention to historical context, Clayton G.