“All flat maps, and I am one”: Cartographic References in the Poems of John Donne

Drawing both on the medieval Mappae mundi and the Ptolemaic tradition revived in the Renaissance, the recurrent cartographic motif in John Donne’s poetry well reflects the preoccupations of a revolutionary period in the history of Western cartography. Yet, for all its cosmic magnitude, Donne’s poems...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ladan Niayesh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2006-10-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/955