John Donne - The Major Works Paperback / softback

by John Donne

Edited by John (Merton Professor of English Literature, Merton Professor of English Literature, Univers Carey

Part of the Oxford World's Classics series

Paperback / softback

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Description

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's sermons - 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, as well 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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