John Donne Journal

Studies in the Age of Donne

North Carolina State University Department of English Campus Box 8105 Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8105

Editors: M. Thomas Hester Robert V. Young (919) 515-4146 FAX: 919-515-1836

To: Donne Scholars and Friends

From: M. Thomas Hester

Re: Registration for “Donne Returns to Loseley,” 18-20 May 2000

Enclosed is the tentative program for the “Donne Returns to Loseley” conference to be held 18-20 May at Loseley Park, Surrey. Respondents and Chairs for sesssions are not listed here; they will be selected later from a list of those who express a wish to serve in such capacities at the conference.

Enclosed also is the Registration form for the Conference. The form along with a check for the registration fee of $150 should be sent as soon as possible to M. Thomas Hester, Box 8105, NCSU, Raleigh NC 27695-8105. Checks should be made out to “John Donne Journal.” The Reigstration Fee includes all the activities of the Conference: the six sessions of the program, access to and formal tours of Loseley House, 3 teas/coffees, 2 cocktail receptions, 1 lunch, 1 banquet, and transportation from Guildford to Loseley Park on Thursday, Friday, the tour of Donne sites in Surrey on Saturday, and a color brochure of Loseley Park.

Lodging is to be arranged by you individually. Upon recipt of your registration you will be sent a brochure listing available lodgings in Guildford, a restaurant guide for Guildford, and other pertinent information to make your stay in Guildford pleasurable.The fee for attendance only at the concluding Banquet ($70) should be sent to me the same address, also to “John Donne Journal.”

Please contact me with any questions about the conference, travel to the conference and to Guildford; and, of course, let me know as soon as possible if you are interested in serving as a respondent or chair to a session at the Conference. Explanations about the arranged travel from Guildford to Loseley Park will be sent to all registrants in February (i.e., pick-up addresses and departure times for our Conference shuttle bus.)

I look forward to seeing you at Anne’s home in May.

(There will be absolutely no scratching of names on windows!)

John Donne Journal

Studies in the Age of Donne

North Carolina State University Department of English Campus Box 8105 Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8105

M. Thomas Hester (919) 515-4146 FAX: 919-515-1836

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“DONNE RETURNS TO LOSELEY”

Loseley Park, Guildford, Surrey

18-20 May 2000

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Donne Returns to Loseley

18-20 May 2000

Loseley Park, Guildford, Surrey

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Thursday, 18 May

TRANSPORTATION FROM GUILDFORD

1:00

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Opening Reception

The Great Hall, Loseley Park

2:00

Major James More-Molyneux

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Session I

The Tithe Barn, Loseley Park

2:30

THE HERITAGE OF DONNE

Chair: Anne Hurley

Wagner College

“Sir Thomas More at Donne’s Birth”

Paul Voss

Georgia State University

“Courting Anne More”

Ilona Bell

Williams College

“illumina tenebras nostras Domina”:

Donne at Evensong

Maureen Sabine

University of Hong Kong

Response: Achsah Guibbory

University of Illinois

Afternoon Tea

4:00

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Session II

4:30

RETURNING TO THE TEXTS OF DONNE

Chair: Ted Sherman

Middle Tennessee State University

“The Merton Manuscript”

Peter Beal

Southeby’s, London

“Poems by J.D.: John Donne’s Corpus and His Bawdy, too”

Ernest W. Sullivan, II

Virginia Tech University

“Cooked Over or Warmed Up? The Modern Editions Before the Modernist Cult”

Dayton Haskin

Boston College

“Editing Donne in the Twentieth Century”

W. Speed Hill

Lehman College--CUNY

Response: Richard Wollman

Simmons College

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TRANSPORTATION TO GUILDFORD

6:30

Friday, 19 May

TRANSPORTATION TO LOSELEY PARK

8:45

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Session III: 9:30

THE HOLY SONNETS

Chair: Ron Corthell

Kent State University

Signing at Cross Purpose: Donne’s Resignation in “Holy Sonnet I”

Kate Frost and William Scheick

Universityof Texas--Austin

The Meditative Path and Personal Poetry

John T. Shawcross

University of Kentucky

“When I would not I change in vowes, and devotione”:

The Public/Private Conflict in the Holy Sonnets

Helen B. Brooks

Stanford University

Response: Paul Parrish

Texas A & M University

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Morning Coffee and Tea: 10:45

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Session IV: 11:15

DONNE’S POETIC PRINCIPLES

Chair: Elizabeth Hodgson

University of British Columbia

Truth and Decorum in Donne’s Poetry

Earl Miner

Princeton University

Sonnets, Rooms, Tears, and Books:

The Poetics of Space in Donne’s Love Poetry

Maria J. Pando Canteli

Universidad de Deusto, San Sebastian

The Advancement of Learning and the Decay of the World:

Donne’s First Anniversarie

Catherine Gimelli Martin

Memphis State University

Response: ______________________

Buffet Lunch: 12:30

Tours of Loseley House: 1:30

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Session V: 2:30

CONTEXTS

Chair: Chinata Goodblatt

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

“Contexts of Pseudo-Martyr”

Tom Cain

Newcastle-upon-Tyne University

Contexts and Strategies:

Donne’s “Elegie on . . . Prince Henry”

Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude Summers

University of Michigan--Dearborn

Contexts and Lamentations:

Donne and the Thirty Years’ War

Mary A. Papazian

Oakland University, Michigan

Response: _____________________________

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Afternoon Tea: 4:00

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Session VI: 4:30

SERMONS

Chair: ___________________________

"The Gallery to the New World":

Donne, Herbert, and Ferrar on the Virginia Project

Florence Sandler

University of Puget Sound

Donne and Bellarmine

R. V. Young

N.C. State University

Dort, Dr. Donne, and the Stuart Church

Jeanne Shami

Regina University--Saskatchewan

Private Visit to Loseley Chapel

6:20

Major James More-Molyneux

Reception

John Donne Journal

7:00

Banquet

The Tithe Barn

8:00

TRANSPORTATION TO GUILDFORD
Saturday, 20 May

Tour of Donne Sites

Dennis Flynn

Bentley College

After a short bus ride from Guildford, we will begin at the Church of St.Nicholas, Pyrford, about three quarters of a mile as the crow flies from whereDonne lived between 1602 and 1604. This puddingstone church has been standing for well over eight hundred years and remains complete with its Norman proportions as they were, unaltered by the usual additions of aisles, chapels or towers although a bell-turret (now newly shingled) was built over the west end prior to the sixteenth century. Donne would certainly have had interest and occasion to inspect this church. The Jacobean pulpit bears the date 1628. Due south of the church about half a mile are the ruins of Newark Priory, visible from Pyrford churchyard in the water meadows below. The Priory was founded a few years after the church was built.

From these ruins (weather permitting) we will turn east and north to walk along the River Wey Navigation from Newark Lock, past Walsham Lock, toward Pyrford Place. This area has been described as one of the better landscapes along the Wey River for gaining an impression of the rural scene that existed
here in Donne's time. Lowland meadows are interspersed with occasional woodland; and there are a number of long-distance views that are not marred by obvious modern development. North of Walsham Lock we will approach Pyrford Place, the first sight of which, on the west shore of the waterway, is an outbuilding that has long been known as "Queen Elizabeth's summer house." The building is a two-story brick structure, about fourteen feet square, with a plain tile ogee dome roof. The River Wey Navigation runs north and south behind the building. The summer house is built into a hill, so that access from the north is by the upper floor.

The building during the nineteenth century was being used as a stable and hayloft. At some point after World War I the summer house was further degraded by being converted into a rental property with electric and water connections as well as private drainage. Three flats were created through the construction of an ugly two-story brick addition to the south side. This was the condition of the summer house when I first viewed it, from the east and across the waterway, in May 1996. The building was vacant, boarded up; and on the landward side it was surrounded with all sorts of trash and the leavings of a bulldozer in piles. However, by May 1998 (two years after my first visit), the summer house was being restored to something like its condition in the seventeenth-century. The twentieth-century addition had been demolished, and the original structure was surrounded by scaffolding.

To finish our walk up the Navigation, we will continue a few hundred yards and meet our bus in the parking lot of the Anchor pub at Pyrford Lock. From there we can drive over to Pyrford Place to make a closer inspection of the summer house from the landward side and talk with the present owner of the property after we have lunch at the Anchor pub. Incidentally, the Anchor pub is itself a historic site, though badly rebuilt and sadly now located between a marina and two inappropriate golf courses reeking of urban fringe. The pub is busy at lunch time, and may seem somewhat garish from our point of view, with crowds of drinkers spilling out on to the riverside to entice the swans. But our walk and our discoveries will have given us an appetite, and the pub fare is not bad.