READINGS OF THE WORK BY PHILIP HARVEY

John Donne Published in The Melbourne Anglican, 2004 One Equall Light : an anthology of the writings of John Donne, compiled and edited and with introductory essays by John Moses. Foreword by Rowan Williams. Canterbury Press, 2003. 1-85311- 540-1 RRP $74.95 Review by Philip Harvey The rediscovery of John Donne in the 20th century reminds us that his reputation for nearly three hundred years was almost non-existent; Dr Johnson dismissed his poetry in a sentence. Donne's powerful imaginative compression and meaningful wordplay have ensured his name as one of the greatest English poets, ‘The Sunne Rising' and ‘The Good-Morrow' amongst his indispensible gifts to modern consciousness. Donne's name has become synonymous with the sacred and the profane, a line he would have questioned himself. Yet it remains true that the general reader knows the love poetry best and has not ventured much beyond the Holy Sonnets. This collection helps restore Donne...

north and south of the river presentation by philip harvey   in the ‘poetry for the soul’ series at the carmelite centre in middle park, on the poetry of william shakespeare and john donne, in june 2012, text presented by philip harvey and poems read by five different voices, including that of the presenter William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) Jo hn Donne (between 24 January and 19 June 1572 – 31 March 1631) [sonnet 116] Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edg...