| The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne Contributor(s): Donne, John (Author), Donoghue, Denis (Introduction by), Coffin, Charles M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0375757341 ISBN-13: 9780375757341 Publisher: Modern Library OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2001 Annotation: 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." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica - Poetry | Ancient & Classical |
| Dewey: 821.3 |
| LCCN: 2001030077 |
| Series: Modern Library Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (1.50 lbs) 736 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |