Complete English Poems - Hardcover

Donne, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713905719 ISBN 13: 9780713905717

Publisher: Allen Lane, 1974

Synopsis

This text contains the complete English poems of John Donne. The detailed notes explain unfamiliar words, clarify obscure references, and refine grammatical complexities; they also give the most important variant reading from selected manuscripts. Avoided are any paraphrases, personal interpretation and unauthorized textual emendations. The book begins with an introduction to the poet and his times, including a bibliography of over 750 items. To complete the volume, Alexander Pope's versions of Donne Satyres II and IV, which are often called into comparison with the originals, have been included in an appendix. C.A. Patrides was the author of over 20 works on the literature of the Renaissance, including "The English Poems of George Herbert".

About this title

About the Author:

Denis Donoghue is University Professor and Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including, most recently, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot (Yale University Press).

From the Back Cover:

This edition, compiled and introduced by C. A. Patrides, is recognized as the most complete and scholarly one-volume collection of the poetical works of John Donne.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0713905719
• ISBN 13: 9780713905717
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 680
• Editor: Smith Albert James