Delphi Classics. 2012. John Donne (22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry...
Edited by Augustus Jessopp, M. A. — London: John Tupling, 1855. — 320 p. A scholarly edition of essays by John Donne. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
The text edited, with notes, by Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr. — New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1910. — 334 p. The Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, now for the first time reprinted in their original form, were collected and published by John Donne, Jr., in 1651, twenty years after the death of the author. Apparently the sales were not large, for three years later the...
Everyman’s Library, 1995. — 260 p. The major seventeenth-century English poet between Shakespeare and Milton, Donne is chiefly celebrated as a love poet. But he was also the author of magnificent satires and epistles, and a series of religious poems including the Holy Sonnets. All these genres are represented in this volume, together with a selection from his prayers, letters and...
Selected by Walter Sidney Scott. — London: John Westhouse, 1946. — 448 p. Foreword by Adam Fox Poetry Songs and Sonnets Elegies Epithalamions Divine Poems Progress of the Soule Holy Sonnets Satires The first and second Anniversaries Epicedes and Obsequies Letters to several Personages Sermons A Sermon of Valediction He that will die with Christ Death's Duel Letters Letters
Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Neil Rhodes. — Penguin Classics, 2015. — 893 p. John Donne was born into a Catholic family in 1572. After a conventional education at Hart Hall, Oxford, and Lincoln’s Inn, he took part in the Earl of Essex’s expedition to the Azores in 1597. He secretly married Anne More in December 1601, and was imprisoned by her father, Sir George, in...
Introduction by Denis Donoghue. Modern Library, 2001. — 1504 p. This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Extasie," and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie," "His Parting From Her," and "To His Mistris Going to...
Indiana University Press, 2005. - 606 p. The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne. Holy Sonnets, also called Divine Meditations or Divine Sonnets, series of 19 devotional poems by John Donne that were published posthumously in 1633 in the first edition of Songs and Sonnets. The poems are characterized by innovative rhythm and imagery and constitute a forceful,...
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