The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 6
The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 6

Author: John Donne

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 776

ISBN-13: 9780253318114

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"Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscript and print history of Donne's poetry, this edition presents newly edited critical texts of the poems and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time forward. Textual introductions briefly locate the poems in the context of Donne's life or poetic development, outline the 17th-century textual history of the poems, and sketch the treatment of the text by modern editors. A detailed textual apparatus presents variants collated from many sources and traces the lines of textual transmission"--Provided by publisher.

The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature

Author: Anna K. Nardo

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1991-09-03

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1438414137

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This book argues that play offered Hamlet, John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burton, and Sir Thomas Browne a way to live within the contradictions and conflicts of late Renaissance life by providing a new stance for the self. Grounding its argument in recent theories of play and in a historical analysis that sees the seventeenth century as a point of crisis in the formation of the western self, the author demonstrates how play helped mediate this crisis and how central texts of the period enact this mediation.

John Donne's Poetry
John Donne's Poetry

Author: John Donne

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 9780393960624

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This second edition of John Donne's Poetry presents a large selection of his most significant work. To the more than one hundred poems of the First Edition, nineteen new poems have now been added-five Elegies, four Satires (enabling the reader to view them as a sequence, as they have come to be regarded), six Verse Letters, and four Divine Poems.