Meditations on Margaret Edson’s “W;t”–with further reflections on whether Donne’s poetry can help us handle death.
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Runaway Bunny Sing Thee to Thy Rest
In her dying moments, the Donne scholar in Margaret Edson’s W;t rejects Donne in favor of Margaret Wise Brown’s The Runaway Bunny. What does this say about the usefulness of both Donne and Brown when we are pushed to the edge? Runaway Bunny is about “a little bunny who wanted to run away.” But each […]
