The sermons of John Donne are seen to embody the tensions and pressure on public religious discourse 1621 - 25. This book considers the professional contribution of John Donne to an emerging homiletic public sphere in the last years of the Jacobean English Church (1621-25), arguing that his sermons embody the conflicts, tensions, and pressures on public religious discourse in this period; while they are in no way "typical" of any particular preaching agenda or style, they articulate these crises in their most complex forms and expose fault lines in the late JacobeanChurch. The study is framed by Donne's two most pointed contributions to the public sphere: his sermon defending James I's Directions to Preachers and his first sermon preached before Charles I in 1625. These two sermons emerge from the crises of controversy, censorship, and identity that converged in the late Jacobean period, and mark Donne's clearest professional interventions in the public debate about the nature and direction of the Church of England. In them, Donne interrogates the boundaries of the public sphere and of his conformity to the institutions, authorities, and traditions governing public debate in that sphere, modelling for his audience an actively engagedconformist identity. Professor JEANNE SHAMI teaches in the Department of English at the University of Regina.

John Donne (B. 1572) Is Considered As The Founder Of Metaphysical Poets.This Book Consists Of Twelve Chapters Highlighting Life And Literary Achievements Of John Donne. An Analytical Approach Is Adopted In Discussion. The Main Themes Discussed Are: John Donne: An Overview; Donne S Elegy 19 : The Busk Between A Pair Of Bodies; Talking To A Silent God: Donne S Holy Sonnets And The Via Negative; The Act Of Preaching And The Art Of Prophesying; Donnie S Atomies And Anatomies: Deconstructed Bodies; Theoloyg And Spirituality: Notes On The Mystical Christology Of John Donne; Forget The Hee And Shee : Gender And Play In John Donne; Lover As Logician: Donne S Amorous Poetry; Jonson And Carew Onf Donne: Censure Into Praise; The Title/Headings Of Donnie S English Epigrams; John Donne And The Baroque Doubt; John Donne And Elizabethan Economy Theory; Etc.This Book Will Benefit The Teachers And Students S Well.