Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which these poems have appeared, the fifth volume in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne presents newly edited critical texts of the five canonical satires and "Metempsychosis" and details the genealogical history of each accompanied by a thorough prose discussion. The analysis contained in the volume shows that Donne revised each of the poems and explains how readings from the competing versions were intermingled in the early editions and transmitted to subsequent generations. The volume...
Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which these poems have appeared, the fifth volume in the series of The Vari...
XX Elegies is a broken-lyric re-versioning of John Donne's Elegies, Donne's fabulously strange and disturbed poem series of sex and death, longing and loss. It is presented here for the first time with Donne's original text and includes letters of correspondence between the two authors regarding their collaboration.
XX Elegies is a broken-lyric re-versioning of John Donne's Elegies, Donne's fabulously strange and disturbed poem series of sex and death, longing and...
John Donne's poems on heavenly and earthly love, delight and despair, beauty and betrayal, are rightly regarded as one of the glories of European civilisation, something every school child (and child of every age) should know
John Donne's poems on heavenly and earthly love, delight and despair, beauty and betrayal, are rightly regarded as one of the glories of European civi...
Originally published in 1923, this book contains an edition of John Donne's Devotions, which were first printed in 1624. Donne wrote these passionate and 'unadorned' meditations during a severe sickness that he feared was life-threatening, and the text consequently provides an intimate portrait of Donne that is lacking from many of his other writings. A brief biography of Donne and a bibliographical note are also provided. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the life and spirituality of John Donne or in his contributions to seventeenth-century religious thought.
Originally published in 1923, this book contains an edition of John Donne's Devotions, which were first printed in 1624. Donne wrote these passionate ...
The nineteen poems that comprise John Donne's "Holy Sonnets" are works of anxiety and spiritual crisis. Most of the sonnets are thought to have been written between 1609 and 1611 but were not published until two decades later-two years after Donne's death. The "Holy Sonnets" explore the poet's fear and trembling when faced with the realisation of his mortality and self-described unworthiness as a recipient of God's grace and mercy. Donne's poems navigate through his doubts in search of a divine comfort and assurance in the hope of salvation and eternal life. With an introduction by poet John...
The nineteen poems that comprise John Donne's "Holy Sonnets" are works of anxiety and spiritual crisis. Most of the sonnets are thought to have been w...
Master John Donne was born in London, in the year 1573, of good and virtuous parents: and, though his own learning and other multiplied merits may justly appear sufficient to dignify both himself and his posterity, yet the reader may be pleased to know that his father was masculinely and lineally descended from a very ancient family in Wales, where many of his name now live, that deserve and have great reputation in that country.
Master John Donne was born in London, in the year 1573, of good and virtuous parents: and, though his own learning and other multiplied merits may jus...
