Description: John Donne was famous in his own time yet was virtually unknown in the eighteenth century. Haskin investigates what happened as Victorian readers, prompted by the enormous popularity of Izaak Walton's biography, began to gradually rediscover the poetry, before showing how Donne came to be seen as the discovery of T. S. Eliot and the modernists.
Review Quotes: "A work of thorough and solid scholarship." --John Donne Journal
"In analyzing editions, articles, letters, course syllabuses, and the first dissertation written on Donne, Haskin models the way the study of literary history can rival the study of literature itself in importance--and in soul." --Victorian Studies