Label The complete poetry and selected prose of John Donne, edited, with an introduction by Charles M. Index no index present LC call number PR2245.A5 LC item number C6 Literary form non fiction Nature of contents bibliography Series statement Modern library of the world's best books Modern library of the world's best booksĬataloging source DLC 1572-1631 Donne, John Dewey number.

Language eng Summary Contains all the poetry and part of the prose of John Donne including 'Ignatius His Conclave,' 'Paradoxes,' and his most famous sermons, 'Death's Duel,' excerpts from 'Devotions' and many of his letters Member of Poets, English - Early modern, 1500-1700.Label The complete poetry and selected prose of John Donne Title The complete poetry and selected prose of John Donne Statement of responsibility edited, with an introduction by Charles M. Epicedes And Obsequies Upon The Deaths Of Sundry Personages.A Funeral Elegie And The First And Second Anniversaries.The Primrose, Being At Montgomery Castle, Upon The Hill, On Which It Is Situate.A Valediction: Of My Name, In The Window.To Lucy, Countesse of Bedford, with M.

In addition, there is a generous sampling of Donne's prose, including many of his private letters Ignatius His Conclave, a satiric onslaught on the Jesuits excerpts from Biathanatos, his celebrated defense of suicide and his most famous sermons, concluding with the final 'Death's Duell.' 'We have only to read ,' wrote Virginia Woolf, 'to submit to the sound of that passionate and penetrating voice, and his figure rises again across the waste of the years more erect, more imperious, more inscrutable than any of his time. Lucies Day,' along with the love elegies 'Jealosie,' 'His Parting From Her,' and 'To His Mistris Going to Bed.' Presented as well are Donne's satires, epigrams, verse letters, and holy sonnets, along with his most ambitious and important poems, the Anniversaries.

Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,' 'The Extasie,' and 'A Nocturnall Upon S. This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry.

The complete poetry and selected prose of john donne