This Second Edition of John Donne's Poetry presents a large selection of his most significant work. To the more than one hundred poems of the First Edition, nineteen poems have been added--five Elegies, four Satires (enabling the reader to view them as a sequence, as they have come to be regarded), six Verse Letters, and four Divine Poems. The text of all the poems is again that of the seventeenth-century edition in which each poem first appeared or, in the case of one Elegy and three Holy Sonnets, the Westmoreland manuscript. All of the poems are glossed and annotated for the student reader.

 "Criticism" includes seven new essays as well as a new subsection,"Satires, Verse Letters, and the Auuiversaries." New critical pieces have been contributed by John R. Lauritsen, David Aers and Gunther Kress, R. V. Young, R. D. Bedford, Raymond-Jean Frontain, John R. Roberts,and Arthur L. Clements.

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

The Texts of the Poems

  SONGS AND SONNETS

The Good-Morrow

Song ("Go and catch a falling star,")

Woman's Constancy

The Undertaking

The Sun Rising

The Indifferent

Love's Usury

The Canonization

The Triple Fool

Lovers' Infiniteness

Song ("Sweetest love, I do not go")

The legacy

A Fever

Air and Angels

Break of Day

The Anniversary

A Valediction: Of My Name, in the Window

Twickenham Garden

A Valediction: Of the Book

Community

Love's Growth

Love's Exchange

Confined Love

 The Dream

 A Valediction: Of Weeping

 Love's Alchemy

 The Flea

 The Curse

 The Message

 A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day

 Witchcraft by a Picture

 The Bait

 The Apparition

 The Broken Heart

 A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

 The Ecstasy

 Love's Deity

 Love's Diet

 The Will

 The Funeral

 The Blossom

 The Primrose

 The Relic

 The Damp

 The Dissolution

 A Jet Ring Sent

 Negative Love

 The Prohibition

 The Expiration

 The Computation

 The Paradox

 Farewell to Love

 A Lecture upon the Shadow

 Sonnet. The Token

 Self-Love

ELEGIES

 I. Jeaiousy

 III. Change

  IV. The Perfume

 V. His Picture

 VII. ("Nature's lay idiot,")

 VIII. The Comparison

 IX. The Autumnal

 X. The Dream

 XI. The Bracelet

 XVI. On His Mistress

 XIX. To His Mistress Going to Bed

 XX. Love's War

Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn

SATIRES

 Satire I

 Satire II

 Satire III

 Satire IV

 Satire V

VERSE LE'I'rERS TO SEVERAL PERSONAGES

 The Storm

 The Calm

 To Sir Henry Wotton ("Sir, more than kisses,")

 To Mr Roland Woodward

 To Sir Henry Wotton ("Here's no more news,")

 To the Countess of Bedford ("Madam, Reason is our

soul's left hand,")

 To the Countess of Bedford ("Madam, You have refined me,")

 To Sir Edward Herbert at Juliers

 To Mr C. B.

 To E. of D. with Six Holy Sonnets

 To Sir Henry Wotton, at his going Ambassador to Venice

An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary

DIVINE POEMS

 La Corona

1. Deign at my hands this crown of prayer and praise

2. Annunciation

  3. Nativity

  4. Temple

  5. Crucifying

  6. Resurrection

  7. Ascension

Holy Sonnets (1633)

  (II)  As due by many titles

  (IV)  Oh my black soul!

  (VI)  This is my play's last scene

  (VII) At the round earth's imagined comers

  (IX)  If poisonous minerals

  (X)  Death be not proud

7 (XI)  Spit in my face you Jews

8 (XII) Why are we by all creatures waited on?

9 (XIII) What if this present were the world's last night?

  10 (XIV) Batter my heart

  11 (XV) Wilt thou love God

  12 (XVI) Father, part of His double interest

Holy Sonnets (added in 1635)

1 (I)   Thou hast made me

2 (V)  I am a little world

3 (III)  O might those sighs and tears

4 (VIII) If faithful souls

Holy Sonnets (from the Westmoreland MS.)

1 (XVII) Since she whom I loved

2 (XVIII) Show me, dear Christ

3 (XIX)  Oh, to vex me

The Cross

Resurrection, imperfect

Upon the Annunciation and Passion Falling upon

 One Day. 16o8

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward

Upon the translation of the Psalms...

To Mr Tilman after he had taken orders

A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into

 Germany

Hymn to God my God, in my Sickness

A Hymn to God the Father

  TEXTUAL NOTES

Criticism

  DONNE AND METAPHYSICAL POETRY

  Ben Jonson·[Conversations on Donne]

  Thomas Carew·An Elegie upon the Death of.

     Dr John Donne

  John Dryden·[Donne "Affects the Metaphysics"]

  Samuel Johnson·["The Metaphysical Poets"]

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge·[Notes on Donne]

  Sir Herbert Grierson·[Donne and Metaphysical Poetry]

  T. S. Eliot·The Metaphysical Poets

  I. B. Leishman·["Dissociation of Sensibility"]

  Joseph Anthony Mazzeo·A Critique of Some Modem

   Theories of Metaphysical Poetry

DONNE'S LOVE POETRY

  Joan Bennett·The Love Poetry of John Donne

  Cleanth Brooks·The Language of Paradox

  Clay Hunt·Elegy 19: "To His Mistress Going to Bed"

  Theodore Redpath·[The Songs and Sonnets]

  R. A. Durr·Donne's "The Primrose"

  Arthur L. Clements·[Eros in the Songs and Sonnets]

 SATIRES, VERSE LETTERS, AND THE ANNIVERSARIES

  John R. Lauritsen·Donne's Satyres: The Drama of

     Self-Discovery

  David Aers and Gunther Kress·'Darke Texts Needs Notes':

     Versions of Self in Donne's Verse Epistles

  Frank Manley·John Donne: The Anniversaries

 DONNE'S DIVINE POEMS

  Helen Gardner·The Religious Poetry of John Donne

  Louis L. Martz·[Donne's "Holy Sonnets" and "Good

     Friday, 1613"]

  Stanley Archer·Meditation and the Structure of Donne's

     "Holy Sonnets"

  R. V. Young·Donne's Holy Sonnets and the Theology

     of Grace

  Readings of Holy Sonnet 10 (XIV): A Critical Discussion

    J. C. Levenson: [The First Quatrain]

    George Herman: [The Extended Metaphor]

   J. C. Levenson: [Three Conceits]

    George Knox: [Contemplation of the Trinity]

   John E. Parish: [The Sonnet's Unity]

    R. D. Bedford: [The Potter-Clay Image]

    Raymond-Jean Frontain: [Redemption Typology]

  A CRITICAL OVERVIEW

  John R. Roberts·John Donne's Poetry: An Assessment

     of Modern Criticism

Selected Bibliography

Index of Titles

Index of First Lines