Download or read book John Donne in the Nineteenth Century written by Dayton Haskin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-21 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.