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
