Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne Daniel Derrin FAIRLEIGHDICKINSONUNIVERSITYPRESS Madison•Teaneck PublishedbyFairleighDickinsonUniversityPress Co-publishedwithTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com 10ThornburyRoad,PlymouthPL67PP,UnitedKingdom Copyright©2013byDanielDerrin Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Derrin,Daniel,1980– RhetoricandthefamiliarinFrancisBaconandJohnDonne/DanielDerrin. pagescm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-61147-603-3(cloth)—ISBN978-1-61147-604-0(electronic) 1.Bacon,Francis,1561–1626—Literarystyle.2.Donne,John,1572–1631—Literarystyle.3.Bacon, Francis,1561–1626—Knowledge—Psychology.4.Donne,John,1572–1631—Knowledge— Psychology.5.Englishlanguage—Earlymodern,1500–1700—Rhetoric.I.Title. PR2208.D472013 820.9'003—dc23 2012047496 ThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica ForMonika Contents Acknowledgements ix Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 1 MakingMentalImages:AnEnargeticRhetoric 19 2 ReasoningfromPlacetoPlace:ATheticalRhetoric 55 3 PassionandPerception:ATropicalRhetoric 83 4 Project-Bacon:GainingProperlyQuietEntry 113 5 Project-Donne:GettingProperlyIncluded 141 Conclusion 175 Bibliography 183 Index 193 AbouttheAuthor 197 vii