Levenson — Donne’s Holy Sonnets

Levenson, J. C. “Donne’s Holy Sonnets.” Explicator 11 (1953): item 31.

Summers — George Herbert

Summers, Joseph H. George Herbert: His Religion and Art. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1954.

“Time and The Temple”; “The Life”; “Religion”; “The Conception of Form”; “The Proper Language”; “The Poem as Hieroglyph”; “Verse and Speech”; “Music”; “Allegory and the Sonnet: A Traditional Mode and a Traditional Form”; “Conclusion”; “Appendix A: ‘The Temple Explained and Improved’”; “Appendix B: Bacon and Herbert”; Notes; Index.

Reviews: Roy W. Battenhouse, Journal of Religion 35 (1955): 117–18; W. E. Buszin, Concordia Theological Monthly 29 (January 1958): 66–67.

Peterson — John Donne’s Holy Sonnets

Peterson, D. L. “John Donne’s Holy Sonnets and the Anglican Doctrine of Contrition.” Studies in Philology 56 (1959): 504–18.

Yearwood — Donne’s Holy Sonnets

Yearwood, Stephenie. “Donne’s Holy Sonnets: The Theology of Conversion.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 24, no. 2 (Summer, 1982): 208-21.

“This essay takes form . . . as an attempt to look closer home than Anglican or Augustinian or Reformation thinking, to look at Donne’s own positions on the doctrinal and emotional aspects of conversion and to establish their importance as a critical framework for the poems” (p. 208).

Fenner — Donne’s ‘Holy Sonnet XII’

Fenner, Arthur. “Donne’s ‘Holy Sonnet XII’.” Explicator 40, no. 4 (Summer, 1982): 14–15.

Flanigan — Donne’s ‘Holy Sonnet VII’

Flanigan, Beverly Olson. “Donne’s ‘Holy Sonnet VII’ as Speech Act.” Language and Style 19, no. 1 (Winter, 1986): 49–57.

Flynn — ‘Awry and Squint’

Flynn, Dennis. “‘Awry and Squint’: The Dating of Donne’s Holy Sonnets.” John Donne Journal 7, no. 1 (1988): 35–46.

Price — Milton’s ‘Sonnet 18’

Price, Michael W. “Milton’s ‘Sonnet 18: On the Late Massacre in Piedmont’.” Explicator 52, no. 2 (Winter, 1994): 70–72.

Bedford — Donne’s Holy Sonnet

Bedford, R. D. “Donne’s Holy Sonnet, ‘Batter My Heart’.” Notes and Queries n.s. 29, no. 1 (February 1982): 15–19.

Pawar — Agony of Faith

Pawar, Malovika. “The Agony of Faith: A Comparative Study of the Holy Sonnets of Donne and the ‘Terrible Sonnets’ of G. M. Hopkins.” Panjab University Research Bulletin (Arts) 18.2 (October 1987): 39–52.

McCormick — Donne, the Pope, and ‘Holy Sonnets XIV’

McCormick, Frank. “Donne, the Pope, and ‘Holy Sonnets XIV’.” CEA Critic 45.2 (January 1983): 23–24.

Chanoff — Biographical Context of John Donne’s Sonnet

Chanoff, David. “The Biographical Context of John Donne’s Sonnet on the Church.” American Benedictine Review 32, no. 4 (1981): 378–86.

Holdsworth — Death of Death

Holdsworth, R. V. “The Death of Death in Donne’s Holy Sonnets 10.” Notes and Queries n.s. 37, no. 2 (June 1990): 183.

Herman — Donne’s Holy Sonnets, XIV

Herman, George. “Donne’s Holy Sonnets, XIV.” Explicator 12 (1953): item 18.

Adams — ‘Attend Me More Diligently’

Adams, J. E. “‘Attend Me More Diligently’: Guidance and Friendship in Milton’s Sonnet 22.” Milton Quarterly 18.1 (1984): 13–19.

Jones — Milton’s Sonnets

Jones, Edward. Milton’s Sonnets: An Annotated Bibliography. Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1994.