Clare Bucknell and Colin Burrow attempt, over twelve episodes, to chart a stable course through some of the most unruly, vulgar, incoherent, savage and outright hilarious works in all of English literature. What is satire, what is it for, and why do we seem to like it so much?
Clare Bucknell and Colin Burrow are both fellows of All Souls College, Oxford.
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Clare Bucknell and Colin Burrow attempt, over twelve episodes, to chart a stable course through some of the most unruly, vulgar, incoherent, savage and outright hilarious works in all of English literature. What is satire, what is it for, and why do we seem to like it so much?
Clare Bucknell and Colin Burrow are both fellows of All Souls College, Oxford.
Episodes will appear once a month throughout 2024, on the 4th of each month.
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In their second episode, Colin and Clare look at the dense, digressive and often dangerous satires of John Donne and other poets of the 1590s. It’s likely that Donne was the first Elizabethan author to attempt formal verse satires in the vein of the Roman satirists, and they mark not only the chronological start of his poetic career, but a foundation of his whole way of writing. Colin and Clare place the satires within Donne’s life and times, and explain why the secret to understanding their language lies in the poet's use of the ‘profoundly unruly parenthesis’.
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Read more on John Donne in the LRB:
Catherine Nicholson: Who was John Donne?
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n02/catherine-nicholson/batter-my-heart
Blair Worden: Donne and Milton's Prose
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n12/blair-worden/things-the-king-liked-to-hear
Tobias Gregory: Lecherous Goates
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n20/tobias-gregory/lecherous-goates
Colin Burrow and Clare Bucknell are both fellows of All Souls College, Oxford.
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