Daniel Tobin: John Donne at the Odeon (July 2014)

Associative, architectural, sexy, saintly, and immoderately wrought, John Donne’s poetry epitomizes the need to embody conflicting temperaments in the astonishing vital contraption that would be a poem. Tobin’s lecture focuses on how Donne’s creative action shapes two of his great poems, “The Canonization” and “Holy Sonnet 14.”