Books in the The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne series

Presents an edited text of the author's elegies and a comprehensive variorum commentary. This book is based on a study of known manuscript sources and significant printed editions of his poetry and on an examination of the criticism and scholarship of the previous centuries.

Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which Donne's poems have appeared, this book presents edited critical texts of the five canonical satires and "Metempsychosis" and details the genealogical history of each accompanied by a thorough prose discussion.

Volume 5 of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne (Verse Letters) provides the most authoritative texts of the poems that Donne wrote in this genre. It includes complete textual introductions and apparatuses for each of the 42 poems in the volume.

This volume, the eighth in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, presents newly edited critical texts of 13 divine poems.