This study examines two important influences that shape John Donne's "Holy Sonnets": The Ignatian meditative tradition and the devotional tradition of the psalm genre. It argues that their confluence in his sonnets gives rise to unique rhetorical structures and strategies that reflect the doctrinal uncertainties of his age.

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This thesis has been a study of the conceit as employed in the Songs and Sonnets of John Donne. It has suggested that the difficulty encountered in attempted classification of Donne's love-poetry may be partially resolved by a recognition of various voices or personae in the poems, several of which may be present within an individual poem. It has demonstrated the way in which Donne's employment of the conceit enabled him to express this variety of voices or personae simultaneously as they exchange positions of dominance and submissiveness within a poem.The thesis has illustrated its study of the conceit through the explication of four specific poems: "The Ecstasy," "A Valediction: forbidding mourning," "The Canonization," and "Love's Alchemy."

Issued also as Thesis--Columbia University. / Includes bibliographical references.

Issued also as Thesis--Columbia University. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of English, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-105).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1961. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1991. / Typescript. Bibliography: leaves [128]-136. Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rice University, 2004. / Title from PDF title page . Electronic access only. "UMI Number 3122568" Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Villanova University, 2010. / English Dept. Includes bibliographical references.