Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Sneaky Satires

According to Edmund Gosse,* John Donne's Seventh Satire "closes with an outburst of splenetic raillery against political personages in high places."

But I'm buggered if I can find any more than five of Donne's Satires. Meaning that I may never have a juicy (Jacobean) example of "splenetic raillery".


* Writing in The life and letters of John Donne, dean of St. Paul's.

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