Category ToteM

John Donne shroud portrait, miniature portrait, and "Biathanatos" title page image photo collage

TO BE OR NOT TO BE

John Donne’s Biathanatos Doyeeta Majumdar “nothing that we call sin is so against nature, but that it may be sometimes agreeable to nature” Biathanatos, I.i.7 When Hamlet muses upon “a consummation devoutly to be wished” (III.i), suicide was considered a…

LAURA WRITES BACK

Extending the line from courtly love through the Tuscan dolce stil nuovo, Petrarchism redefined the position of women in European love poetry. Yet the more things changed, the more they remained the same. Petrarchism gave women a new inviolate space