It is in the letters of John Donne (1571/2-1631) that the vulnerable candour underlying the vagaries of the poems is manifest. They are, as it were, the historical and spiritual substructure of his fluent and indefatigable imagination.

Product Description: This collection of Donne's work runs the gamut of the poet's many areas of brilliance: from love songs to religious hymns, from heartfelt elegies to holy sonnets. It includes some of his best-loved poems, including "Goe, and catche a falling starre," Loves Growthe" and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," as well as his religious and philosophical musings...read more

Product Description: This is a complete facsimile edition of fourteen autograph letters of John Donne that are among the greatest treasures of the Folger Library. The letters, dating from February and March 1602, relate to Donne's clandestine marriage to Anne More and are addressed to his father-in-law, Sir George More, and to Sir Thomas Egerton, the lord keeper, who was also Donne's employer...read more

Featuring the works of the most famous authors in Classical Literature, including William Shakespeare, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, James Joyce, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Carl Sandburg and others, Coupled with the talents of celebrity performers, this musically scored presentation is unlike anything else available.

Product Description: Completed late in 1614, Essayes, Donne's only theological and philosophical treatise, casts considerable light on his ideas about his own future. Donne entered the Anglican priesthood soon after completing it and Raspa reveals that, particularly because of its treatment of time and destiny, Essayes is crucial to our understanding of the development of Donne's ideas about the turbulent religio-political state of the Renaissance world and how he came to see his own life within it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: 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...read more

Gathers Donne's satires, epigrams, verse letters, sonnets, and essays

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Written after the deaths of many friends and family members, this meditation on mortality by a great poet and lyrical writer reflects on the meaning of life, death, and salvation. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Possibly the most influential of all English poets, John Donne has left an indelible imprint on the literary world. Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls takes its title from Donne's renowned Meditation 17, and the title of John Gunther's Death Be Not Proud is borrowed from one of Donne's holy sonnets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Excerpt: ... my forwardnesse in that office; and I beseech you not to repent your part therein. Since we came to this Town, there arrived an Extraordinary from Spain, with a reconfirmation of the Duke d'Aumals Pension, which is thereby 2400l a year, & he brings the title of Count, to Rodrigo de Calderon, who from a very low place, having grown to be Secretary to Lerma, is now Ambassador here, and in great opinion of wisdome: They say yet he goes to Prague with the Marquis Spinola, and the Graf Buquoy, to congratulate the Emperour; but we all conclude here, that persons of such quality, being great in matter of Warre, are not sent for so small an emploiment: we beleeve certainly, that they deliberate a Warre, and that the reduction of Aix being not worthy this diligence, their intentions must be upon Cleves, for the new Town which the two Princes make by Collen Cologne despites them much...read more

Product Description: Pseudo-Martyr was Donne's first published work and the only one he wrote as a lawyer. It is also an autobiographical document which reveals how Donne resolved his own lapse from Catholicism so that he could remain loyal to the king...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: This anthology poems by John Donne, George Herbert,Andrew Marvell and Thomas Vaughan. In playful analogy and hunting imagery, these poets approach universal themes through everyday details.

Product Description: This volume presents the only “authorial” manuscript ever discovered for any of John Donne's sermons. Jeanne Shami's discovery of this manuscript in the British Library's Royal Manuscripts Collection—as a miscellaneous and unattributed sermon text—is indeed a cause for celebration among Donne scholars...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Donne is mainly celebrated as a love poet, but he was also the author of magnificent satires and epistles, and of a series of religious poems. All these genres are represented in this volume, together with a selection from his prayers, letters and sermons, presenting a complete portrait of the man.

Gathers songs, sonnets, elegies, satires, letters, and religious poetry by the seventeenth century English poet