"The mind, you know is like a Table-Book"
— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Author
Work Title
Date
1633
Metaphor
"The mind, you know is like a Table-Book"
Metaphor in Context
The mind, you know is like a Table-Book,
Which, th'old unwipt, new writing never took
Which, th'old unwipt, new writing never took
Categories
Provenance
Reading Maclean's John Locke and English Literature (1962), p. 33. Maclean cites Donne, but qualifies that the poem is probably written by Sir John Roe. H. R. Woudhuysen also notes that this metaphor is erroneously attributed to Donne. See his "Writing-Tables and Table-Books." sBLJ Article 3. (2004). <http://www.bl.uk/collections/eblj/2004/pdfarticles/article3.pdf>.
Citation
See Poems, By J. D.: With Elegies on the Authors Death (London: Printed by M. F. for Iohn Marriot, 1633). <Link to EEBO-TCP>
Reading John Donne, ed. John Carey (Oxford: OUP, 1990).
Reading John Donne, ed. John Carey (Oxford: OUP, 1990).
Date of Entry
03/27/2005
Date of Review
04/26/2007
