In his occasional poetry, and especially in his two elegaic Anniversary poems, Donne created a special symbolic mode in seventeenth-century poetry of praise and

"Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscript and print history of Donne's poetry, this edition presents newly edited critical texts of the poems and a compre

First published in 1990, this title provides a compendium of useful information for any reader of Donne to have at hand: crucial biographical material, historic