This Second Edition of John Donneís Poetry presents a large selection of his most significant work.

To the more than one hundred poems of the First Edition, nineteen new poems have been added—five Elegies, four Satires (enabling the reader to view them as a sequence, as they have come to be regarded), six Verse Letters, and four Divine Poems.

The text of all the poems is again that of the first seventeenth-century edition in which each poem appeared or, in the case of one Elegy and three Holy Sonnets, the Westmoreland manuscript.

All of the poems are glossed and annotated for the student reader.

Criticism includes seven essays which are new to this edition, as well as a new subsection, "Satires, Verse Letters, and Anniversaries."

Critical pieces have been contributed by John R. Lauritsen, David Aers and Gunther Kress, R. V. Young, R. D. Bedford, Raymond-Jean Frontain, John R. Roberts, and Arthur L. Clements.

The Selected Bibliography has been updated for the Second Edition, and indexes of poem titles and first lines have been added.