This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as ""A Valediction- Forbidding Mourning,"" ""The Extasie,"" and ""A Nocturnall Upon S. 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. 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
Donne ,"" 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.""
By:
John Donne Introduction by:
Denis Donoghue Edited by:
Charles M. Coffin Imprint: Modern Library Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 203mm,
Width: 132mm,
Spine: 38mm
Weight: 601g ISBN:9780375757341 ISBN 10: 0375757341 Series:Modern Library Classics Pages: 640 Publication Date:15 August 2001 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Reviews for The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne
"""When Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots, Wreathe iron pokers into True-love knots."""
