Secentismo E Marinismo in Inghilterra: John Donne by Mario Praz
Abstract
There are, as a frontspiece, two portraits. In the first (engraved in an oval), despite the wide shoulders, is the figure of a young man who holds with a nervous grasp in his noble and shriveled hand, the knuckles and tendons of which are sharply delineated, the hålt of a sword. There is never tranquility nor harmony in the countenance; but an indefinable savagery and rapaciousness in the prominent cheek-bones and in the lack of balance of the central details the large eyes, bright and far-seeing under the narrow circumflex eyebrows, the flat nose with dilated nostrils, the receding forehead, the small, curved mouth, the disappearing chin under which is accentuated the adam's apple.
Subject Area
Literature|British and Irish literature
Recommended Citation
Diana, Joseph C, "Secentismo E Marinismo in Inghilterra: John Donne by Mario Praz" (1937). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28960364.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28960364
