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Cures and Currency in John Donne’s Letters to Patrons (2017)
Journal Article
Bumke, A. (2017). Cures and Currency in John Donne’s Letters to Patrons. SEL Studies in English Literature, 57(1), 67-86. https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2017.0003

Critics have discussed how John Donne’s writing responds to alchemy and to patronage, but none has examined how he draws parallels between the two frameworks. Donne sees both as convoluted, frustrating processes that rely on falseness. Comparing his... Read More about Cures and Currency in John Donne’s Letters to Patrons.

More than skin deep: dissecting Donne’s imagery of humours (2015)
Journal Article
Bumke, A. (2015). More than skin deep: dissecting Donne’s imagery of humours. Review of English Studies, 66(276), https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgv054

This article explores John Donne’s imagery of humoral complexions in verse letters to patrons and in sermons. In the early modern period, the term ‘complexion’ referred to a person’s unique mixture of humours, the four bodily fluids thought to determ... Read More about More than skin deep: dissecting Donne’s imagery of humours.