Sighs and tears: Biological signals and John Donne's "whining poetry"

Philosophy and Literature

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 329-344

  Winkelman, Michael A ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77449085554     PISSN: 01900013     EISSN: 1086329X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/phl.0.0051     Document Type: Review

References (37)

1. Quotations are from The Complete Poetry of John Donne, ed. John Shawcross (Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1967). The spelling of irregular early modern English has been modernized throughout, with -'d endings retained where they indicate rhyme or pronunciation
2. Amotz Zahavi and Avishag Zahavi, The Handicap Principle: A Missing Piece of Darwin's Puzzle, trans. Naama Zahavi-Ely and Melvin Patrick Ely (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. xiv
3. The concept was originally formulated around 1975. See also Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, ed. Paul Ekman, 3rd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
4. Troilus and Criseyde in The Riverside Chaucer, gen. ed. Larry Benson, 3rd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987), ii. 1023-27
5. The Riverside Shakespeare, eds. G. Blakemore Evans et al. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974). Subsequent Shakespeare citations will be from this edition and will be cited parenthetically
6. Izaak Walton, The Lives of John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, and Robert Sanderson (London: Oxford University Press, 1927), p. 51, hereafter cited as Walton
7. Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The Rime sparse and Other Lyrics, ed. Robert M. Durling (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976)
8. The englishing is from Petrarch, Canzoniere, trans. J. G. Nichols (Manchester: Carcanet, 2000)
9. See M. C. Wittrock et al., The Human Brain (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1977), pp. 9-10, 16-26
10. Thomas Wright, The Passions of the Minde in Generall, ed. William Webster Newbold, The renaissance Imagination 15 (New York: Garland, 1986), pp. 165-66
11. See also Richard Byrne and Andrew Whiten, eds., Machiavellian Intelligence: Social Expertise and the Evolution of Intellect in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988). Dr. Frans de Waal's findings are instrumental here as well
12. See Arthur Marotti, John Donne, Coterie Poet (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986), pp. 44-66
13. Zahavi and Zahavi, The Handicap Principle, p. 32
14. Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (New York: Penguin Books, 2002), p. 407
15. An Essay of Criticism in Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope, ed. Aubrey Williams (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969), ll. 297-98
16. A. J. Smith, ed., John Donne: The Critical Heritage (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975), p. 218
17. "The Metaphysical Poets" (1921) in Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot, ed. Frank Kermode (New York: Harvest/HBJ, 1975), pp. 65-66
18. Thomas M. Greene, "Pitiful Thrivers: Failed Husbandry in the Sonnets," in Shakespeare's Poems, eds. Stephen Orgel and Sean Keilen, The Critical Complex 4 (New York and London: Garland, 1999), p. 61
19. Quotations of Tudor sonnets in this section will be from Richard Sylvester, ed., English Sixteenth-Century Verse: An Anthology (New York: Norton, 1984)
20. The following concordances were consulted: Homer Carroll Combs and Zay Rusk Sullens, eds., A Concordance to the English Poems of John Donne (Chicago: Packard & Co., 1940)
21. Herbert Donow, ed., A Concordance to the Poems of Sir Philip Sidney (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975)
22. Herbert Donow, ed., A Concordance to the Sonnet Sequences of Daniel, Drayton, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Spenser (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press / London: Feffer & Simons, 1969)
23. Charles Grosvenor Osgood, ed., A Concordance to the Poems of Edmund Spenser (Gloucester, Massachusetts: Peter Smith, 1963)
24. and Marvin Spevack, ed., The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1973)
25. Colin Martindale, The Clockwork Muse: The Predictability of Artistic Change (New York: Basic Books, 1990)
26. William Wordsworth, "Scorn not the Sonnet" in Sonnets, ed. John Hollander (New York: Knopf, 2001), ll. 2-3, p. 250
27. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings, trans. Margaret Sayers Peden (New York: Penguin, 1997)
28. no. 164 in the standard numbering (the title is probably non-authorial). See also Lisa Rabin, "Sor Juana's Petrarchan Poetics," in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, eds. Emilie Bergmann and Stacey Schlau (New York: MLA, 2007), pp. 170-77
29. Denis Dutton, The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009), p. 147
30. Geoffrey Miller, The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (New York: Doubleday, 2000), pp. 380-81
31. John Donne, Selected Letters, ed. P. M. Oliver (New York: Routledge, 2002), p. 98
32. Lynne Magnusson, "Donne's Language: The Conditions of Communication," in The Cambridge Companion to John Donne, ed. Achsah Guibbory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 183
33. William Empson, "A Valediction: of Weeping," in John Donne: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Helen Gardner (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1962), pp. 52-60
34. reprinted from Seven Types of Ambiguity, 3rd ed. (London: Chatto & Windus, 1953)
35. Barbara Estrin, "Small Change: Defections from Petrarchan and Spenserian Poetics," in New Casebooks: John Donne, ed. Andrew Mousley (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999), pp. 97-98
36. reprinted from Laura: Uncovering Gender and Genre in Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994)
37. C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures and The Scientific Revolution (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1959)