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- Title
Nicholas of Cusa in Donne’s Pseudo-Martyr and ‘Love’s Alchemie’.
- Authors
Stroud, Helen C.
- Abstract
The author analyzes the 17th-century tract "Pseudo-Martyr" and the 1610 poem "Love's Alchemie" by John Donne. According to the author, Donne's comparisons of Jesuits and scholars used a paradoxical idea known as the Coincidence of Opposites, or Convergence of Extremes, used by 15th-century philosopher Nicholas of Cusa to describe God's limitless nature. A possible pun in "Love's Alchemie" that also references Cusa is explored.
- Subjects
DONNE, John, 1572-1631; PSEUDO-Martyr (Book); LOVE'S Alchemie (Poem); JESUITS in literature; NICHOLAS, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464; PUNS &; punning in literature
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2013, Vol 60, Issue 4, p514
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gjt212