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The complete poetry and selected prose of John Donne / edited by Charles M. Coffin ; introduction by Denis Donoghue ; notes by W.T. Chmielewski.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Modern Library classicsNew York, NY, U.S.A. : Modern Library, ©2001Edition: Modern Library pbk. edDescription: xxxii, 697 p. ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 0375757341
Uniform titles:
  • Works. Selections. 2001
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 821.3/D71
LOC classification:
  • PR2246 2001
Other classification:
  • CAS
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Denis Donoghue -- Poetry. Printer to the Understanders ; Dedication to the edition of 1650 ; Songs and sonets ; Elegies and heroicall epistle ; Epigrams ; Satyres ; Infinitati sacrum (Metempsychosis) ; Verse letters to severall personages ; Epithalamions, or Marriage songs ; A funerall elegie and the first and second anniversaries ; Epicedes and obsequies upon the deaths of sundry personages and epitaphs ; Epitaphs ; Divine poems ; Latin poems and translations ;- From Elegies upon the author -- Prose. From Juvenilia : or Certaine paradoxes, and problemes ; Paradoxes ; Problemes ; Characters, essay, and conceited newes ; Ignatius his conclave ; From Essayes in divinity ; From Letters ; From Devotions upon emergent occasions ; From Sermons and Death's duell.
Summary: An accessible and comprehensive gathering of the works of the metaphysical English poet John Donne, a writer who has continued to loom large on the literary landscape (after a long period of obscurity) since his championing by TS Eliot and others. With a new introduction, in a volume edited by Charles Coffin.
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Introduction / Denis Donoghue -- Poetry. Printer to the Understanders ; Dedication to the edition of 1650 ; Songs and sonets ; Elegies and heroicall epistle ; Epigrams ; Satyres ; Infinitati sacrum (Metempsychosis) ; Verse letters to severall personages ; Epithalamions, or Marriage songs ; A funerall elegie and the first and second anniversaries ; Epicedes and obsequies upon the deaths of sundry personages and epitaphs ; Epitaphs ; Divine poems ; Latin poems and translations ;- From Elegies upon the author -- Prose. From Juvenilia : or Certaine paradoxes, and problemes ; Paradoxes ; Problemes ; Characters, essay, and conceited newes ; Ignatius his conclave ; From Essayes in divinity ; From Letters ; From Devotions upon emergent occasions ; From Sermons and Death's duell.

An accessible and comprehensive gathering of the works of the metaphysical English poet John Donne, a writer who has continued to loom large on the literary landscape (after a long period of obscurity) since his championing by TS Eliot and others. With a new introduction, in a volume edited by Charles Coffin.

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