Description:The present volume, by presenting a large selection of the most significant poetry of John Donne, affords all the materials for a close study of this major poet. The Songs and Sonnets are complete; they are followed by a generous selection of the Elegies, the Verse Letters to Several Personages, and the Divine Poems, together with such other important works as The First Anniversary. The text for each poem is based upon its first edition. Accidentals of spelling, capitalization and punctuation have been carefully updated. Full textual notes are provided.The essays in criticism range from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century, from sharply critical accounts to highly favorable evaluations, from general consideration of Donne and metaphysical poetry to close analyses of individual poems. There follows a list of the critics represented: on "Donne and Metaphysical Poetry," Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, John Dryden, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Herbert Grierson, T. S. Eliot, J. B. Leishman, Joseph Anthony Mazzeo; on "Donne's Love Poetry," C. S. Lewis, Joan BEnnett, Cleanth Brooks, Clay Hunt, Theodore Redpath, R. A. Durr; on "Donne's Divine Poems and the Anniversaries," Helen Gardner, Louis L. Martz, Stanley Archer, J. C. Levenson, George Herman, George Knox, A. L. Clements, John E. Parish, Frank Manley.THE EDITOR, A. L. CLEMENTSProfessor of English, State University of New York at Binghamton; Ph.D., Syracuse University. He held a research fellowship and grant-in-aid from the Research Foundation of the State University of New York to complete his critical study, The Mystical Poetry of Thomas Traherne, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for Humanities for a study of George Herbert.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with John Donne's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions) [Paperback] [4th printing] (Author) John Donne, Donald R. Dickson. To get started finding John Donne's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions) [Paperback] [4th printing] (Author) John Donne, Donald R. Dickson, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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John Donne's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions) [Paperback] [4th printing] (Author) John Donne, Donald R. Dickson
Description: The present volume, by presenting a large selection of the most significant poetry of John Donne, affords all the materials for a close study of this major poet. The Songs and Sonnets are complete; they are followed by a generous selection of the Elegies, the Verse Letters to Several Personages, and the Divine Poems, together with such other important works as The First Anniversary. The text for each poem is based upon its first edition. Accidentals of spelling, capitalization and punctuation have been carefully updated. Full textual notes are provided.The essays in criticism range from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century, from sharply critical accounts to highly favorable evaluations, from general consideration of Donne and metaphysical poetry to close analyses of individual poems. There follows a list of the critics represented: on "Donne and Metaphysical Poetry," Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, John Dryden, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Herbert Grierson, T. S. Eliot, J. B. Leishman, Joseph Anthony Mazzeo; on "Donne's Love Poetry," C. S. Lewis, Joan BEnnett, Cleanth Brooks, Clay Hunt, Theodore Redpath, R. A. Durr; on "Donne's Divine Poems and the Anniversaries," Helen Gardner, Louis L. Martz, Stanley Archer, J. C. Levenson, George Herman, George Knox, A. L. Clements, John E. Parish, Frank Manley.THE EDITOR, A. L. CLEMENTSProfessor of English, State University of New York at Binghamton; Ph.D., Syracuse University. He held a research fellowship and grant-in-aid from the Research Foundation of the State University of New York to complete his critical study, The Mystical Poetry of Thomas Traherne, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for Humanities for a study of George Herbert.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with John Donne's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions) [Paperback] [4th printing] (Author) John Donne, Donald R. Dickson. To get started finding John Donne's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions) [Paperback] [4th printing] (Author) John Donne, Donald R. Dickson, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.