John Donne's Poetry Paperback | Pages: 464 pages

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ISBN:	0393926486 (ISBN13: 9780393926484)
Edition Language:	English

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The texts reprinted in this new Norton Critical Edition have been scrupulously edited and are from the Westmoreland manuscript where possible, collated against the most important families of Donne manuscripts the Cambridge Belam, the Dublin Trinity, and the O Flahertie and compared with all seven seventeenth-century printed editions of the poems as well as all major twentieth-century editions. Criticism is divided into four sections and represents the best criticism and interpretation of Donne s writing: Donne and Metaphysical Poetry includes seven seventeenth-century views by contemporaries of Donne such as Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, and John Dryden, among others; Satires, Elegies, and Verse Letters includes seven selections that offer social and literary context for and insights into Donne s frequently overlooked early poems; Songs and Sonnets features six analyses of Donne s love poetry; and Holy Sonnets/Divine Poems explores Donne s struggles as a Christian through four authoritative essays. A Chronology of Donne s life and work, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles and First Lines are also included.

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Title	:	John Donne's Poetry
Author	:	John Donne
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Critical Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	November 19th 2006 by W.W. Norton (first published 1631)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. Literature. Academic. School. European Literature. British Literature. Fiction. Religion

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I enjoyed the love sonnets and poetry especially. This edition could have ventured into the poet's life and given some of his pertinent background.

Three stars for the commentary articles in the back. Just don't really like Donne. Sorry but I don't particularly enjoy reading graphic sexually derogatory depictions of women.

Commentary on The Ecstasy:There is often sufficient paradox and complexity in the poems of John Donne that he leaves his readers perplexed. That is no more true in his lyrics than of "The Ecstasy". One of his best known verses, this can be read as a representation of an artful young seducer; but my background and our class discussion suggests a more serious interpretation. My view is based in the classical philosophy of Plato and his poetic and philosophic, many-faceted, stories of the nature of

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Daybreak"STAY, O sweet and do not rise!The light that shines comes from thine eyes;The day breaks not: it is my heart, Because that you and I must part. Stay! or else my joys will die And perish in their infancy.""Now thou hast loved me one whole day,Tomorrow when thou leav'st, what wilt thou say?Wilt thou then antedate some new-made vow? Or say that nowWe are not just those persons which we were?"

One of the greatest and weirdest poets in English. He was a dirty tomcat trickster at his best, and even his metaphysical "conceits" or whatever were pretty comical (cf. for example "The Flea" to prove both points). Simultaneously dirty and sublime, how often do you come across that? Also, he commissioned a painting of what he would probably look like when he rises in the apocalypse, so keep your eyes peeled.

What is it that infects the iconoclasts? What is it unrelenting that they cannot be the same?John Donne was a colossus, straddling the channel. To be born English and Catholic meant he never had a unified identity. Sometimes it troubled him, but to be no one man became his greatest gift. Most people are never forced to look beyond their place and their lives. That place itself may be challenged, and success is never assured, but to strive to become someone out of being so strongly no-one is