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Watch For The Light: Readings For Advent And Christmas»rank: 628by: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John Donne, Meister Eckhart, T.S. Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, C. S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, Archbishop Romero, Henri J.M. Nouwen, Philip Yancey
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The Complete English Poems (Everyman's Library)»rank: 232128by: John Donne
: :(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)Introduction by C. A. Patrides |
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne (Modern Library Classics)»rank: 37781by: John Donne
: :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 ... |
John Donne's Poetry (Norton Critical Edition)»rank: 102646by: John Donne
: :'Donald Dickson's John Donne's Poetry is the best text of Donne now available. It is scrupulously edited, and equally useful for students and for scholars.'—Harold Bloom, Yale UniversityThe texts reprinted in this new Norton Critical Edition have been scrupulously edited and are from the Westmoreland manuscript where possible, collated against the most important families of Donne manuscripts—the Cambridge Belam, the Dublin Trinity, and the O'Flahertie—and compared with all seven seventeenth-century printed editions of the poems as well as all major twentieth-century editions.'Criticism' is divided into four sections and represents the best criticism and interpretation of Donne's writing: 'Donne and Metaphysical Poetry' includes seven seventeenth-century views by contemporaries of Donne such ... |
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel»rank: 620761by: John Donne
: :John Donne (1572-1631) is best known as the greatest English metaphysical poet. But there was another dimension to Donne's life and writing that, if less well known, is no less profound and beautiful. Born into an aristocratic Catholic family, Donne joined the Church of England at the age of twenty-one out of fear of persecution. At the age of forty-three, he gave up his preoccupations with secular prestige and devoted himself utterly to religion. It was eight years later when, battered with fever, the deaths of his beloved wife, several of his children, and many dear lifelong friends, he composed Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. There is both trauma and great ... |
The Love Poems of John Donne»rank: 419081by: John Donne
: :John Donne's standing as one of the greatest poets in the English language is now thoroughly established, and critics such as T. S. Eliot and F. R. Leavis have found in Donne's poetry qualities profoundly responsive to the modern age. While Donne is famous for his religious poetry, his love poems are among the most beautiful ever written, and this collection brings them together for the first time.Donne was a man who knew all the many faces of love-- physical passion, jealousy, rapture, grief and parting-- and possessed the genius to distill his experiences into poetry. The potency of his writing has lost none of its effect; Donne's love poetry ... |
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The Major Works: Including Songs and Sonnets and Sermons (Oxford World's Classics)»rank: 364460by: John Donne
: :John Donne (1572-1631) is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century, and has often been referred to as the founder of the metaphysical genre. His poetry is highly distinctive and individual, adopting a multitude of tones, images, forms, and personae. This collection of Donne's verse includes a wide selection from both his secular and divine poems, including such well-known poems as 'Air and Angels,' 'The Flea,' the 'Holy Sonnets', and 'The Progress of the Soul.' The poems are provided with full Notes and a useful Introduction to Donne's life and poetry. |
Classic Hundred All-Time Favorite Poems»rank: 1504977by: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Philip Sidney, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Thomas Carew, Edmund Waller, John Milton, Sir John Suckling, Richard Lovelace, Andrew Marvell
: :Imagine if Billboard compiled a list of the top 100 poems, chosen not by critics or professors but by the people themselves. That's the concept behind The Classic Hundred, and it works brilliantly. William Harmon found the 100 most anthologized poems in English, based on the ninth edition of The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry—the most objective measurement of greatness available, representing consensus among the editors of some 400 anthologies. Then he put them in order and prefaced each one with concise, erudite, often humorous commentary. The range of poets, subjects, and forms—from Shakespeare to Frost, from love and death to crime and punishment, from sonnets to odes—makes this an ... |
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The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Vol. 8: The Epigrams, Epithalamions, Epitaphs, Inscriptions, and Miscellaneious Poems»rank: 1546206by: John Donne
: :Based on a study of all known manuscript sources and significant printed editions of Donne's poetry and on an examination of the criticism and scholarship of the past four centuries, this edition presents a newly edited critical text of Donne's poems and a comprehensive variorum commentary. Volume 8, the second published in a projected eight-volume series, presents a heterogeneous collection of poems spanning Donne's entire career as a poet, from epigrams penned in the early 1590s to a one-line Latin epigram written only days before his death. |
John Donne: Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions and Prayers (Classics of Western Spirituality)»rank: 722846by: John Donne, John Booty
: :The poetry of John Donne is one of the enduring treasures bequeathed to posterity by early seventeenth-century England. The keen wit and refined sensibilities of the Renaissance poet made his metaphysical musings classics of English literature. Yet, as was the case with his contemporary, George Herbert, it was the religious impulse that ran most strongly in his life. It led him, after a career as an aspirant at the court of James I, to take holy orders in the Anglican church at the age of 43. The skill and passion that had defined his secular work found a new object in the symbols and mysteries of the Christian faith. His ... |