A major editorial and interpretive undertaking, this edition includes a newly edited critical text based on exhaustive study of all known manuscripts and significant printed editions of Donne's poetry and a complete digest of critical and scholarly commentary on the poetry from Donne's time to the present. For this edition over 5,000 non-holographic manuscript copies in 239 seventeenth-century commonplace books, poetical miscellanies, and collections of Donne's poetry have been consulted. Instead of the Donne institutionalized by the printer of the posthumous 1633 edition of the poetry,...
A major editorial and interpretive undertaking, this edition includes a newly edited critical text based on exhaustive study of all known manuscrip...
"This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship." Chronique
"Academic libraries and specialists in Renaissance and 17th-century studies should feel compelled to own each and every volume of this series." Seventeenth Century News
"An occasion for celebration. Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the end of the twentieth century. Superb." Early Modern Literary Studies
This latest addition to the Donne variorum, the third to appear in a projected eight-volume series,...
From reviews of previous volumes:
"This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship." Chronique
