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John Donne Janel Mueller (William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, The University of Chicago)

John Donne By Janel Mueller (William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, The University of Chicago)

Summary

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of John Donne (1572-1631). The edition presents Donne's texts in chronological order, and includes an Introduction, Chronology, and full commentary notes.

John Donne Summary

John Donne: Selected Writings by Janel Mueller (William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, The University of Chicago)

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of John Donne (1572-1631). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, this authoritative edition enables students to study Donne's work in the order in which it was written, and, wherever possible, using the text of the first published version. The volume presents a wholly new edition of Donne's verse and prose, consisting of a selection of Donne's compositions that circulated in manuscript or in print form during his lifetime. Each text is paired with a generous complement of historical and textual annotation, which enables students to access and appreciate the excitement with which Donne's contemporaries-his first readers-discovered his famous and incomparable originality, audacity, ingenuity, and wit. The edition incorporates new directions and emphases in scholarly editing that equip students with a better understanding of the texts and the contexts in which they were produced, such as the history of readership and the history of texts as material objects. Explanatory notes and commentary are included, to enhance the study, understanding, and enjoyment of these works, and the edition includes an Introduction to the life and works of Donne, and a Chronology.

John Donne Reviews

Janel Mueller's excellent edition is at once an accessible opening up of Donne's verse and prose for the modern reader, and a rich exploration of the material forms in which Donne's writing originally circulated. Mueller's generous notes, and a lightly modernised text, help readers with questions of genre, historical context, and biography, while facsimiles of manuscripts and printed editions, and discussions of early readers and later editorial responses, convey some of the latest research on the history of reading and of the material text. * Adam Smyth, Balliol College, Oxford *
The textual histories of Donne's writings are as complex and paradoxical as his famous verse. Here Janel Mueller presents for the first time, in a format accessible to students, the rich experience of encountering Donne not in texts conflated by modern scholars, but as his first admirers did in early print editions and bespoke manuscript collections. Impeccably edited and annotated, this is a must-have for any student of Donne. * Peter McCullough, Lincoln College, Oxford *

About Janel Mueller (William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, The University of Chicago)

Janel Mueller is the William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, Department of English and the College, The University of Chicago. She is the former editor of Modern Philology and the former dean of the Division of the Humanities at Chicago. She has published on a range of subjects in English Reformation and Renaissance literature, focusing particularly on the writings of Elizabeth I and Katherine Parr.

Table of Contents

Introduction A Note on Editorial Practices A Selective Chronology of Donne's Life FROM THE WESTMORELAND MANUSCRIPT, PRE-1599 COMPOSITIONS Satires (Satyra) Elegies (Elegia) Epithalamium Verse Letters to Male Friends Paradoxes Epigrams To a Jet ring sent to me FROM THE BURLEY MANUSCRIPT, LETTERS CONCERNING HIS MARRIAGE (1602) THE FIRST AND SECOND ANNIVERSARIES (FIRST EDITION, 1612) To the Praise of the Dead, and the Anatomy The First Anniversary. An Anatomie of the World A Funerall Elegie The Harbinger to the Progres The Second Anniversarie. Of the Progres of the Soule FROM THE DOWDEN MANUSCRIPT, POEMS COMPOSED BEFORE THE END OF 1614 Elegies The Calme Verse Letters to Male Friends Verse Letters to Noble Ladies La Corona Holy Sonnets The Crosse The Annuntiation The Litanye Goodfriday. 1613. Riding towards Wales Songs and Sonnets An Epithalamion or Maryage Song, on the Lady Elisabeth, and Frederick Count Palatine, beeing maryed on Saint Valentines day Eclogue. 1613. December 26 Epithalamion Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, Brother to the Countesse of Bedford FROM THE WESTMORELAND MANUSCRIPT, RELIGIOUS LYRICS (1607-1620) DEVOTIONS UPON EMERGENT OCCASIONS (FIRST EDITION, 1624)

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9780198797647
0198797648
John Donne: Selected Writings by Janel Mueller (William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, The University of Chicago)
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Oxford University Press
2018-02-01
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