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The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 7.1

The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 7.1

Name: The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 7.1
Author: John Donne
ISBN: 9780253047908

The Holy Sonnets

by John Donne

Edited by Gary A. Stringer and Paul A. Parrish

Published by: Indiana University Press

Series: The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne

Imprint: Indiana University Press

716 Pages, 155.00 × 235.00 mm, 5 index

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Published: December 2005

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Description
Contents
Authors
Praise

Contents
Acknowledgments
Short Forms of Reference for Donne's Works
Abbreviations Used in the Commentary
Sigla for Textual Sources
Manuscripts Listed by Traditional Classification
Symbols and Abbreviations Used in the Textual Apparatus
General Introduction
Introduction to Volume 7.1
General Textual Introduction
The Critical Tradition
Texts and Apparatuses
The Holy Sonnets
Original Sequence
1. [Thou hast made me,] HSMade
2. [As due by many titles] HSDue
3. [O might those sighes] HSSighs
4. [Father, part of his double Interest] HSPart
5. [O my blacke Soule,] HSBlack
6. [This is my Playes last scene,] HSScene
7. [I am a litle World,] HSLittle
8. [At the round Earths Imagin'd corners] HSRound
9. [Yf poysonous Mineralls,] HSMin
10. [Yf faithfull Soules] HSSouls
11. [Death be not proud,] HSDeath
12. [Wilt thou loue God,] HSWilt
Westmoreland Sequence
1. [Thou hast made me,] HSMade
2. [As due by many titles] HSDue
3. [O might those sighes] HSSighs
4. [Father, part of his double interest] HSPart
5. [Oh my black Soule,] HSBlack
6. [This is my Playes last Scene,] HSScene
7. [I ame a litle World,] HSLittle
8. [At the round Earths imagind corners] HSRound
9. [If poysonous Minerals,] HSMin
10. [If faythfull Soules] HSSouls
11. [Death be not proud,] HSDeath
12. [Wilt thou love God,] HSWilt
13. [Spitt in my face] HSSpit
14. [Why ame I by all Creatures] HSWhy
15. [What yf this present] HSWhat
16. [Batter my hart,] HSBatter
17. [Since She whome I lovd,] HSShe
18. [Show me deare Christ,] HSShow
19. [Oh, to vex me,] HSVex
Revised Sequence
1. [As due by many titles] HSDue
2. [Oh my black Soule,] HSBlack
3. [This is my Playes last Scene,] HSScene
4. [At the round Earths imagin'd corners] HSRound
5. [If poysonous mineralls,] HSMin
6. [Death bee not proude,] HSDeath
7. [Spitt in my face] HSSpit
8. [Why are wee by all Creatures] HSWhy
9. [What if this present] HSWhat
10. [Batter my heart,] HSBatter
11. [Wilt thou loue God] HSWilt
12. [Father, part of his double interest] HSPart
Lists of Copy-Texts and Emendations for the Three Sequences
Textual Introductions and Apparatuses for Individual Holy Sonnets
(arranged alphabetically by short forms)
HSBatter
HSBlack
HSDeath
HSDue
HSLittle
HSMade
HSMin
HSPart
HSRound
HSScene
HSShe
HSShow
HSSighs
HSSouls
HSSpit
HSVex
HSWhat
HSWhy
HSWilt
Analyses of Early Printed Copies
Appendices
Appendix 1: The 1635 Sequence
Appendix 2: A Note on Identifying Authorial Revisions
Among Manuscript Variants
Commentary
The Holy Sonnets
General Commentary on the Holy Sonnets
Dating and Order
The Poet/Persona
Genre and Traditions
Language and Style
Prosody
Sacred and Profane
Themes
The Holy Sonnets and Other Works
Commentary on Individual Holy Sonnets
(arranged alphabetically by short forms)
HSBatter
Commentary
Notes and Glosses
HSBlack
Commentary
Notes and Glosses
HSDeath
Commentary
Notes and Glosses
HSDue
Commentary
Notes and Glosses
HSLittle
Commentary
Notes and Glosses
HSMade
Commentary
Notes and Glosses
HSMin
Commentary
Notes and Glosses
HSPart
Commentary
Notes and Glosses
HSRound
Commentary
Notes and Glosses
HSScene
Commentary
Notes and Glosses
HSShe
Commentary
Notes and Glosses
HSShow
Commentary
Notes and Glosses
HSSighs
Commentary
Notes and Glosses
HSSouls
Commentary
Notes and Glosses
HSSpit
Commentary
Notes and Glosses
HSVex
Commentary
Notes and Glosses
Works Cited
Index of Authors Cited in the Commentary
Index of Writers and Historical Figures Cited in the Commentary
Index of Other Poems and Works of Donne Cited in the Commentary
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines
About the Editors

In the end, the Elegies are experiments in rhetoric, and whilst, for Donne as for Shakespeare, that does not automatically entail insincerity, it refuses to make sincerity the touchstone of excellence. We are seldom reminded as forcefully as by these poems that in the Latin poetry which underlies them the idea of rhetorical figuration is itself imaged as the application of cosmetics. March 2001
(New Criterion)
An occasion for celebration. Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the end of the twentieth century. Superb.
(Early Modern Literary Studies)
Academic libraries and specialists in Renaissance and 17th–century studies should feel compelled to own each and every volume of this series.
(Seventeeth Century News)
Like its predecessors, . . . [this] volume of the Donne Variorum enterprise to appear is a triumph in every way.
(John Donne Journal)
. . . This edition immediately displaces all its predecessors, and will be indispensable for scholars and libraries.
(TLS)
In this third volume in a projected eight-volume series, Stringer presents the most authoritative texts and fullest editorial history of the elegies, including textual apparatus from all known manuscripts and editions from the 17th century onward, and also a comprehensive summary of scholarly and critical commentary on the elegies (also from Donne's era onward). The remarkable insights in the textual/editorial component include identification of the most authoritative manuscript for the elegies (housed in the New York Public Library) and a persuasive speculation that the first 12 elegies in this manuscript reflect Donne's intended sequence. Critical insights reveal the early trend not to treat the elegies as a separate group but to integrate them into a discussion of Donne's amatory verse; the value of using the elegies as context for Donne's later amatory verse, notably Songs and Sonnets; moralistic and biographical readings, which sometimes characterize Donne as a libertine and denounce him for licentiousness; Donne as the first poet to write love elegies in English; the coteries for which the elegies were written and the scribal culture that copied and recopied them for presentation to such audiences of intellectuals. The volume contains five indexes and the most comprehensive bibliography on the elegies now available. Indispensable for large collections supporting 17th–century literature.February 2001
- A. C. Labriola (Duquesne University)