A Cognitive Approach to John Donne’s Songs and Sonnets

1. Introduction: “Love Sometimes Would Contemplate, Sometimes Do”
Michael A. Winkelman

2. “My Verse, the Strict Map of My Misery”: Of Metaphors and Mindscapes
Michael A. Winkelman

3. The Composing of “A Jeat Ring Sent”; or Donne as Thinker and Imaginator
Michael A. Winkelman

4. “A Lecture, Love, in Loves Philosophy”: Donne’s Illuminating Anatomizations
Michael A. Winkelman

5. “John Donne, Anne Donne, Vn-done”? A Biocultural Reassessment of Their Scandalous Marriage
Michael A. Winkelman

6. “Firme Substantial Love”: Donne’s Penetrating Observations
Michael A. Winkelman

7. “The Very Ecstasy of Love”: Prescriptions for Bliss in Irvine Welsh and John Donne
Michael A. Winkelman

8. Sighs and Tears: Biological Costly Signals and Donne’s “Whining Poëtry”
Michael A. Winkelman

9. “Verse That Drawes Natures Workes, from Natures Law”; or, Prolegomenon to a Darwinian Defense of Literature
Michael A. Winkelman

10. Conclusion: Why Cognitive Science Matters Now
Michael A. Winkelman

Keywords: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Cognitive Psychology, British and Irish Literature, North American Literature