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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100198797648

ISBN-139780198797647

eBay Product ID (ePID)239629019

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Book TitleJohn Donne : Selected Writings

Number of Pages656 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2018

GenreLiterary Criticism, Poetry

AuthorJanel Mueller

Book Series21st-Century Oxford Authors Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight21.2 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

ReviewsJanel Mueller's excellent edition is at once an accessible opening up of Donne's verse and prose for the modern reader, and a rich exploration of the material forms in which Donne's writing originally circulated. Mueller's generous notes, and a lightly modernised text, help readers with questions of genre, historical context, and biography, while facsimiles of manuscripts and printed editions, and discussions of early readers and later editorial responses, conveysome of the latest research on the history of reading and of the material text.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal821.3

Table Of ContentIntroductionA Note on Editorial PracticesA Selective Chronology of Donne's LifeFROM THE WESTMORELAND MANUSCRIPT, PRE-1599 COMPOSITIONSSatires (Satyra)Elegies (Elegia)EpithalamiumVerse Letters to Male FriendsParadoxesEpigramsTo a Jet ring sent to meFROM THE BURLEY MANUSCRIPT, LETTERS CONCERNING HIS MARRIAGE (1602)THE FIRST AND SECOND ANNIVERSARIES (FIRST EDITION, 1612)To the Praise of the Dead, and the AnatomyThe First Anniversary. An Anatomie of the WorldA Funerall ElegieThe Harbinger to the ProgresThe Second Anniversarie. Of the Progres of the SouleFROM THE DOWDEN MANUSCRIPT, POEMS COMPOSED BEFORE THE END OF 1614ElegiesThe CalmeVerse Letters to Male FriendsVerse Letters to Noble LadiesLa CoronaHoly SonnetsThe CrosseThe AnnuntiationThe LitanyeGoodfriday. 1613. Riding towards WalesSongs and SonnetsAn Epithalamion or Maryage Song, on the Lady Elisabeth, and Frederick CountPalatine, beeing maryed on Saint Valentines dayEclogue. 1613. December 26EpithalamionObsequies to the Lord Harrington, Brother to the Countesse of BedfordFROM THE WESTMORELAND MANUSCRIPT, RELIGIOUS LYRICS (1607-1620)DEVOTIONS UPON EMERGENT OCCASIONS (FIRST EDITION, 1624)

SynopsisThis volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of John Donne (1572-1631). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this authoritative edition enables students to study Donne's work in the order in which it was written, and, wherever possible, using the text of the first published version.The volume presents a wholly new edition of Donne's verse and prose, consisting of a selection of Donne's compositions that circulated in manuscript or in print form during his lifetime. Each text is paired with a generous complement of historical and textual annotation, which enables students to access and appreciate the excitement with which Donne's contemporaries - his first readers - discovered his famous and incomparable originality, audacity, ingenuity, and wit. The edition incorporates new directions and emphases in scholarly editing that equip students with a better understanding of the texts and the contexts in which they were produced, such as the history of readership and the history of texts as material objects. Explanatory notes and commentary are included, to enhance the study, understanding, and enjoyment of these works, and the edition includes an Introduction to the life and works of Donne, and a Chronology., This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of John Donne (1572-1631). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this authoritative edition enables students to study Donne's work in the order in which it was written, and, wherever possible, using the text of the first published version.The volume presents a wholly new edition of Donne's verse and prose, consisting of a selection of Donne's compositions that circulated in manuscript or in print form during his lifetime. Each text is paired with a generous complement of historical and textual annotation, which enables students to access and appreciate the excitement with which Donne's contemporaries--his first readers--discovered his famous and incomparable originality, audacity, ingenuity, and wit. The edition incorporates new directions and emphases in scholarly editing that equip students with a better understanding of the texts and the contexts in which they were produced, such as the history of readership and the history of texts as material objects. Explanatory notes and commentary are included, to enhance the study, understanding, and enjoyment of these works, and the edition includes an Introduction to the life and works of Donne, and a Chronology., This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of John Donne (1572-1631). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this authoritative edition enables students to study Donne's work in the order in which it was written, and, wherever possible, using the text of the first published version. The volume presents a wholly new edition of Donne's verse and prose, consisting of a selection of Donne's compositions that circulated in manuscript or in print form during his lifetime. Each text is paired with a generous complement of historical and textual annotation, which enables students to access and appreciate the excitement with which Donne's contemporaries--his first readers--discovered his famous and incomparable originality, audacity, ingenuity, and wit. The edition incorporates new directions and emphases in scholarly editing that equip students with a better understanding of the texts and the contexts in which they were produced, such as the history of readership and the history of texts as material objects. Explanatory notes and commentary are included, to enhance the study, understanding, and enjoyment of these works, and the edition includes an Introduction to the life and works of Donne, and a Chronology., Introduces students to the life and work of John Donne, one of the greatest poets of the English Renaissance, Chronological presentation allows students to study his development and growth as a poet, Includes a Chronology which provides details of Donne's life, and the composition and publication of his works, The poems and writings are presented free of annotation on the page, allowing students to encounter the original texts afresh, Explanatory notes and commentary provide students with a wealth of additional material, An essential teaching resource Book jacket., This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of John Donne (1572-1631). The edition presents Donne's texts in chronological order, and includes an Introduction, Chronology, and full commentary notes.

LC Classification NumberPR2245