Publication Date: 1996-Revised and reprinted 2003
Binding: Paperback
No. of Pages: 99

Sean Haldane provides here a vivid psychosexual analysis of one of the greatest of all English poets. John Donne’s philosophical approach is seen to be erotically charged – and surprisingly contemporary in its candid acknowledgement of the part that sex plays in the lives of men and women. He explores Donne’s use of the underlying ideas of his age in the formation and meaning of his poetry. He traces the development of Donne’s ideas about love, ranging from lust to the constancy of love and culminating on Donne’s view of the Divine.

Sean Haldane is a clinical psychologist as well as a gifted poet.