John Donne: The Major Works

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Oxford University Press, 2000 - 488 páginas
This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Donne's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by rarely published letters and extracts from Donne'ssermons - to give the essence of his work and thinking. John Donne (1572-1631) is today celebrated as one of the greatest of the metaphysical poets, whose verse was daringly original and whose use of imagery and conceits marked a new, intellectual approach to poetry. His Satires, Elegies, and Songs and Sonnets, which contain his most famous love poems,were complemented by his religious writing, both verse and prose. He was one of the most renowned preachers of his day, and this volume does equal justice to the full range of his work. In addition to nearly all his English poetry this volume includes over 130 extracts from Donne's sermons, aswell as the full text of his last sermon, 'Death's Duel'. A distinguishing feature of the selection is that the works are arranged in the chronological order of their composition.

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To Mr T W All hail sweet poet
1
To Mr E G Even as lame things
9
That the Gifts of the Body are Better than those of
15
Sir though I thank God for it
22
To Mr I L Blessed are your north parts
25
His Picture
31
The Storm
42
Thou shalt not laugh
48
A Letter to the Lady Carey and Mistress Essex Rich from
231
An Epithalamion or Marriage Song on the Lady Elizabeth
238
From a letter to Sir Henry Goodyer February 1614
250
From a letter to Sir Henry Goodyer late 1614
259
From an undated Whitsunday sermon c 161821
272
From a sermon preached at Essex House at the Churching of Lady
279
From a sermon preached at Lincolns Inn Easter Term 1620?
292
From a sermon preached at Lincolns Inn Trinity Sunday 1620
296

On Sir Thomas Egerton
54
From a letter possibly to Sir Henry Wotton 1600?
64
The Progress of the Soul Metempsychosis
71
Letter to Sir George More 2 February 1602
86
The Sun Rising
92
Song Sweetest love I do not go
98
of Weeping
112
The Apparition
118
Loves Diet
124
The Relic
130
A Lecture upon the Shadow
137
The Cross
143
From Biathanatos
149
Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day 1608
155
A Litany
161
From a letter to Sir Henry Goodyer Winter 16089
169
To E of D with Six Holy Sonnets
176
Elegy on the Lady Markham Man is the world
180
To the Countess of Bedford To have written then
187
To the Countess of Bedford Honour is so sublime perfection
194
To Sir Edward Herbert at Juliers
200
An Anatomy of the World The First Anniversary
207
Of the Progress of the Soul The Second Anniversary
218
33
298
From a sermon preached on Whitsunday c 1622
313
From a sermon preached at Pauls Cross 15 September 1622
315
From an undated sermon c 1623? preached at a christening
328
A Hymn to God the Father
333
From an undated sermon 2 February 1624?
351
34
361
From a sermon preached 16 January 1626
365
From a sermon preached on Easter Day 1626
369
From a sermon preached at St Pauls 28 January 1627
376
From a sermon preached upon Trinity Sunday 1627
382
From a sermon preached before King Charles 1 15 April 1628
388
From a sermon preached on Candlemas Day 2 February year
395
Deaths Duel Preached before King Charles 1 25 February 1631
401
Notes
419
42
422
45
429
The Legacy
439
36
444
52
451
53
466
Further Reading
480
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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. John Carey is Merton Professor of English at Oxford University. A distinguished critic, reviewer, & broadcaster, he is the author of several books, including "The Intellectuals & the Masses".

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