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
The English civil wars loom large in seventeenth-century history and literature. This period, which culminated in the execution of a king, the dismantling of the Established Church, the inauguration of a commonwealth, and the assumption of rule by a lord protector, was one of profound change and disequilibrium. Focusing on writers as major as Milton, Marvell, Herrick, and Vaughan, and as misunderstood as Fane, Overton, and the poet Eliza, the fifteen essays in this collection discuss not only the representation of the civil wars but also the ways in which the civil wars were anticipated,...
The English civil wars loom large in seventeenth-century history and literature. This period, which culminated in the execution of a king, the dism...
Written by various experts in the field, this volume of thirteen original essays explores some of the most significanttheoretical and practical fault lines and controversies in seventeenth-century English literature. The turn into the twenty-first century is an appropriate time to take stock of the state of the field, and, as part of that stock-taking, the need arises to assess both where literary study of the early modern period has been and where it might desirably go. Hence, many of the essays in this collection look both backward and forward.They chart the changes in the field over the...
Written by various experts in the field, this volume of thirteen original essays explores some of the most significanttheoretical and practical fau...