An Analysis of the John Donne Poem a Nocturnal Upon St Lucy's Day...

Professor Barbara Hardy is the most brilliant person I have ever known in my 68 years. My essay, which is a close textual literary and psychological analysis of ontological non-existence caused by the loss of a beloved, studies one profoundly moving poem - "A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy's Day, being the shortest day" - by the 16th Century English poet John Donne. Professor Hardy congratulated me personally on this essay when I was a second year undergraduate at Birkbeck College, London University in 1982. Something I have never forgotten - hence my keeping this MS.