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Donne: Better to be Woke Than Asleep

By Robin Bates | Published: March 16, 2023

In “Good Morrow,” Donne delivers a timely message that it’s good to be woke.

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Donne’s Warning about Climate Change

By Robin Bates | Published: December 29, 2015

Looking back over the past year, I repost an essay on John Donne’s “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” and climate change denial. Given that 2015 has been the warmest year on record and that “the weather outside is frightful,” Donne’s comments about “moving of th’ earth” are only too relevant.

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Donne and Climate Change Denial

By Robin Bates | Published: June 2, 2015

Somewhat unexpectedly, John Donne’s “Valediction Forbidding Mourning” gives insight into climate change denial.

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Donne as an Aid to Teenage Angst

By Robin Bates | Published: January 21, 2010

Well, the semester is underway.  Yesterday I began teaching one of my favorite classes, the early British Literature survey (Literature in History I).  Along with Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Wife of Bath, Doctor Faustus, Twelfth Night, King Lear, and Paradise Lost, I will be teaching the poetry of John Donne.  I […]

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