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4. 17th c poetry -- some of Donne's secular poems against fidelity

Published: Jan. 25, 2014, 7:52 p.m.

b'We turn to the secular Donne, in Songs and Sonnets, and look at his views of fidelity and his arguments against it. \\xa0"Woman\'s Constancy," "The Indifferent," "The Flea." \\xa0His way of story-telling: the backstory he expects his readers are sophisticated enough to pick up in his dramatic monologues or implicit dialogues. \\xa0Hilarity and subtlety combined.'