The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 6: The Anniversaries and the Epicedes and Obsequies

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Indiana University Press, 1995 - 752 páginas

"The appearance of the first volume . . . is an occasion for celebration. Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the end of the twentieth century . . . " —Claude J. Summers, Early Modern Literary Studies

" . . . especially valuable for its wide-ranging and reliable summaries of textual and critical commentary on these works . . . This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship." —Bibliotèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance

" . . . the most important collaborative project in 17th-century studies in recent history . . . " —Seventeenth-Century News

A major editorial and interpretive undertaking, this edition includes a newly edited critical text based on exhaustive study of all known manuscripts and significant printed editions of Donne's poetry and a complete digest of critical and scholarly commentary on the poetry from Donne's time to the present.

 

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Acknowledgments
xii
Abbreviations Used in the Commentary
xxiii
Symbols and Abbreviations Used in the Textual Apparatus
xxxviii
Introduction to Volume 6
lii
TO THE PRAISE of the Dead and the ANATOMY 5
5
A FVNERALL ELEGIE
18
The Second Anniuersarie OF THE PROGRES of the Soule
25
Textual Introduction
38
Genres and Traditions
326
Structure
335
Language and Style
345
The Anniversaries and Other Works
355
Notes and Glosses on The First Anniuersarie
366
Notes and Glosses on A Funerall Elegie
450
Notes and Glosses on The Second Anniuersarie
460
incomparable Prince HENRY
586

Elegia
103
An Elegie vpon the death of the Ladie Marckam
112
HENRY
160
General Commentary
239
Dating and Early Printings
281
She
293
The Poet and His Audience
317
Commentary on Obsequyes upon the Lord Harrington
612
Commentary on A Hymne to the Saynts and to
646
Works Cited
656
Index of Authors Cited in the Commentary
680
Index of Titles
686
About the Editors
685
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Poet and churchman John Donne was born in London in 1572. He attended both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, but did not receive a degree from either university. He studied law at Lincoln's Inn, London, in 1592, and was appointed private secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, Keeper of the Great Seal, in 1598. He became an Anglican priest in 1615 and was appointed royal chaplain later that year. In 1621 he was named dean of St. Paul's Cathedral. Donne prepared for his own death by leaving his sickbed to deliver his own funeral sermon, "Death's Duel", and then returned home to have a portrait of himself made in his funeral shroud. He died in London on March 31, 1631. GARY A. STRINGER is Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi and Chair of the Committee on Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association.

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