He Sings the Body Electrum: Re-membering Elizabeth Drury
He Sings the Body Electrum: Re-membering Elizabeth Drury
This chapter examines the epitaph, elegy, and the poem Anniversaries, An Anatomy of the World written by John Donne on the occasion of Elizabeth Drury's death. It suggests that these works map out the problematics of writing and reading about the female body for Donne. It proposes a possible strategy for tackling Donne's difficult poems and suggests that the present absence of the feminine is what lies at the centre of Donne's Anniversaries.
Keywords: John Donne, epitaph, elegy, Elizabeth Drury, feminine, Anniversaries, female body
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