Author
Stirling; Kirsten
Year
2024
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer
Language
English
Pages
27
ISBN
978-1-80543-247-0
Last Update
01-Nov-2024
Keywords
Language & Literature ; British Studies ; European Studies ; Art & Art History
The opening of Donne’s Epistle prefacing his Metempsychosis, in the epigraph above, both declares an interest in portraits and expresses some doubts about what they can “deliver”. The “picture” he is accustomed to set at the entrance to his “buildings”, seems to refer to the convention of the portrait frontispiece of a printed book.² The Epistle was placed first in the 1633 edition of his Poems, even though that edition had no frontispiece, and in 1635 it faces the Marshall engraving of the poet – oddly, in this case, separated from the rest of Metempsychosis and functioning as a preface to...
