The Collected Poems of John Donne (Wordsworth Poetry Library) - Softcover

Donne, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853264008 ISBN 13: 9781853264009

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 1994

Synopsis

Edited with an Introduction, Chronology, Notes, Bibliography and Glossary by Roy Booth, Royal Holloway College, University of London.

John Donne (1572-1631) is a poet of concerted emotional and intellectual force, whose strenuously original approach to the subject matter, diction and form of verse re-made English poetry. Donne's poetry combines paradoxical wit, scientific and theological learning with the rhythms and diction of spoken language. Crises of love, conscience, and faith are the great concerns of his poetry which is by turns exalted or disenchanted, direct or oblique, morally profound or outrageously spiteful.

This edition makes available the whole of Donne’s English poetry, and includes a new introduction, chronology, notes and up-to-date bibliography.

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Synopsis

John Donne's poetry is marked by a scientific colloquial directness and a complex, even tortured, intelligence. It falls into two classes. There is the early ironic and erotic poetry that contains some of the finest English love poetry and also his later, religious poetry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853264008
• ISBN 13: 9781853264009
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Booth Roy