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Ronald Huebert launches Loving John Donne

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Location:
University of King's College, Senior Common Room, 6350 Coburg Rd, Halifax, NS
Link:
https://kingsbookstore.ca/events/5924720261001
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Community event, Member-organized event

The Early Modern Studies Program invites you to the launch of Inglis Professor Ronald Huebert’s novel, Loving John Donne!

Loving John Donne begins with Sir Henry Wotton and Izaak Walton fishing in the Thames and sharing memories about the enigmatic John Donne. Wotton recalls the witty young poet and man about town, while Walton remembers from his later life Donne’s persuasive power as a preacher. This novel celebrates both versions of Donne’s character, and explores the often-troubled relationship between Donne as an individual and the culture he inhabited. One of its aims is to capture the special energies inherent in the bond between Donne and Ann More, the young woman he clandestinely married in 1601.

The narrative includes quotations from Donne’s poetry and prose: sometimes Donne is shown in the act of composition or revision, sometimes a text of his is read years later by a friend or admirer, but in either case the link between writing and life is likely to be a riddle. Friends and lovers of Donne tried to solve this riddle in his own day, as this novel shows, and it is a tribute to his enduring impact that readers continue to do so today.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase from King’s Co-op Bookstore, as well as refreshments.

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  • New writers: those with less than two years’ creative writing experience and/or no short-form publications (e.g., short stories, personal essays, or poems in literary magazines, journals, anthologies, or chapbooks).
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Occasionally, WFNS uses the phrase “emerging and established writers/authors” to mean ‘writers and authors of all experience levels.’

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