{"id":290,"date":"2017-04-03T10:29:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T14:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=290"},"modified":"2017-04-03T10:29:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T14:29:21","slug":"connection-between-the-ralegh-reading-and-donne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/john-donne\/connection-between-the-ralegh-reading-and-donne\/","title":{"rendered":"Connection between the Ralegh reading and Donne?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While doing the reading, I was at first surprised by the inclusion of Sir Walter Ralegh&#8217;s\u00a0text\u00a0from\u00a0<em>The Discovery of Guiana<\/em> in a section about Donne. At first glance, they seemed very far apart &#8211; Ralegh lived in a different political regime in the 16th century, Donne in the 17th; Ralegh writes in prose about the discovery of El Dorado. This seemed something much more like a fanciful documentary than Donne&#8217;s rich verse.<\/p>\n<p>However, when I reached the passage on p.886 about how &#8220;Guiana is a country that hath yet her maidenhead, never sacked, turned, nor wrought,&#8221; I started perhaps thinking about how Ralegh here also uses explicit sexual metaphors in a new way &#8211; in this case, to describe the virginity and rape\/pillaging(?) of a new land. I would be interested to know what others thought about the connection between Ralegh&#8217;s text here and Donne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While doing the reading, I was at first surprised by the inclusion of Sir Walter Ralegh&#8217;s\u00a0text\u00a0from\u00a0The Discovery of Guiana in a section about Donne. At first glance, they seemed very far apart &#8211; Ralegh lived in a different political regime in the 16th century, Donne in the 17th; Ralegh writes in prose about the discovery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-donne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}