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Show 2 the even epistolary received careful misread largely methods of inadequacy of recent to over-reliance an conclusions without indeed different and students of them to applied including Donne's works, the and this The Satyr-persona, mistic, and limited marked tainty, the if not he its they are theories of Kernan's hypo- "The history satyr personality is argues, sick; he is drama he narrates. by- instability, for at story of the gradual the is satire of set following taken his especially pernicious. development in But One anyway. (140). character satires. genre have Donne Elizabethan formal growth partly Cankered Muse arrives from other theses has proven of The is theories the on and aims satire. verse studies been cases the of have Satyres in many ignorance Elizabethan Alvin Kernan. by modern a of attributable Kernan, of have they the writers The forth attention, out the Finally, when verse. a His crabbed, pessi- hypocritical personality incoherence, wildness, is uncer- contradiction: he is sadistic and enjoys his rough wo r k ; he is filled with envy of those same fools he despises and delights in exposing those sins of which he is himself guilty; he is a sick man, his nature unbalanced by melancholy, whose perspec tive of the world is distorted by this malady. ( pp As Kernan formal sion of points out, satire after the figure "the 1600 is defind satyr 116 encounter we simply . a - 1 7) in standardized by Nashe, Hall, printed ver and Harston." |
