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Article: The Cambridge Companion to John Donne.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- December 22, 2006
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Achsah Guibbory, ed. The Cambridge Companion to John Donne.
Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xviii + 288 pp. index. illus. chron. bibl. $75. ISBN: 0-521-83237-3.
The well-established series of Cambridge Companions to Literature (over a hundred volumes since 1986) now appends The Cambridge Companion to John Donne, sixteen essays by leading Donne scholars, to its list. These chapters, in varying degrees, suggest changes in the course of Donne studies. In a reflective chapter on "Donne's Afterlife," Dayton Haskin observes that Donne "repeatedly exceeds the best attempts to nail him down" (245). The first and ...