John Donne's Poetry
Second Edition

A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION



Contents


Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition

The Texts of the Poems
  SONGS AND SONNETS
    The Good-Morrow
    Song ("Go and catch a falling star,")
    Woman's Constancy
    The Undertaking
    The Sun Rising
    The Indifferent
    Love's Usury
    The Canonization
    The Triple Fool
    Lovers' Infiniteness
    Song ("Sweetest love, I do not go")
    The Legacy
    A Fever
    Air and Angels
    Break of Day
    The Anniversary
    A Valediction: Of My Name, in the Window
    Twickenham Garden
    A Valediction: Of the Book
    Community
    Love's Growth
    Love's Exchange
    Confined Love
    The Dream
    A Valediction: Of Weeping
    Love's Alchemy
    The Flea
    The Curse
    The Message
    A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day
    Witchcraft by a Picture
    The Bait
    The Apparition
    The Broken Heart
    A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
    The Ecstasy
    Love's Deity
    Love's Diet
    The Will
    The Funeral
    The Blossom
    The Primrose
    The Relic
    The Damp
    The Dissolution
    A Jet Ring Sent
    Negative Love
    The Prohibition
    The Expiration
    The Computation
    The Paradox
    Farewell to Love
    A Lecture upon the Shadow
    Sonnet: The Token
    Self-Love
  ELEGIES
    I. Jealousy
    III. Change
    IV. The Perfume
    V. His Picture
    VII. (Nature's Lay Idiot,")
    VIII. The Comparison
    IX. The Autumnal
    X. The Dream
    XI. The Bracelet
    XVI. On His Mistress
    XIX. To His Mistress Going to Bed
    XX. Love's War

  Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn

  SATIRES
    Satire I
    Satire II
    Satire III
    Satire IV
    Satire V

  VERSE LETTERS TO SEVERAL PERSONAGES
    The Storm
    The Calm
    To Sir Henry Wotton ("Sir, more than kisses,")
    To Mr. Roland Woodward
    To Sir Henry Wotton ("Here's no more news,")
    To the Countess of Bedford ("Madam, Reason, is our soul's left
      hand,")
    To the Countess of Bedfors (" Madam, You have refined me,")
    To Sir Edward Herbert at Juliers
    To Mr. C.B.
    To E. of D. with Six Holy Sonnets
    To Sir Henry Wotton, at his going Ambassador to Venice

  An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary

  DIVINE POEMS
    La Corona
        Design at my hands this crown of prayer and praise
        Anunciation
        Nativity
        Temple
        Crucifying
        Resurrection
        Ascension
    Holy Sonnets (1633)
  1  ·II)  As due by many titles
  2  ·IV)  Oh my black soul!
  3  ·VI)  This is my play's last scene
  4  ·VII)  At the round earth's imagined corners
  5  ·IX)  If poisonous minerals
  6  ·X)  Death be not proud
  7  ·XI)  Spit in my face you Jews
  8  ·XII)  Why are we by all creatures waited on?
  9  ·XIII)  What if this present were the world's last night?
  10  ·XIV)  Batter my heart
  11  ·XV)  Wilt thou love God
  12  ·XVI)  Father, part of His double interest
    Holy Sonnets (added in 1635)
  1  ·I)  Thou hast made me
  2  ·V)   I am a little world
  3  ·III)  O might those sighs and tears
  4  ·VIII)  If faithful souls
      Holy Sonnets (from the Westmoreland MS.)
  1  ·XVII)  Since she whom I loved
  2  ·XVIII)  Show me, dear Christ
  3  ·XIX)  Oh, to vex me
    The Cross
    Ressurection, imperfect
    Upon the Annunciation and Passion Falling upon One Day. 1608
    Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
    Upon the translation of the Psalms....
    To Mr. Tilman after he had taken orders
    A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany
    Hymn to God my God, in my Sickness
    A Hymn to God the Father
TEXTUAL NOTES


Criticism
  DONNE AND METAPHYSICAL POETRY
    Ben Jonson · [Conversations on Donne]
    Thomas Carew · An Elegie upon the Death of...Dr. John Donne
    John Dryden · [Donne "Affects the Metaphysics"]
    Samuel Johnson · ["The Metaphysical Poets"]
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge · [Notes on Donne]
    Sir Herbert Grierson · [Donne and Metaphysical Poetry]
    T.S. Eliot · The Metaphysical Poets
    J.B. Leishman · ["Dissociation of Sensibility"]
    Joseph Anthony Mazzeo · A Critique of Some Modern Theories
      of Metaphysical Poetry
  DONNE'S LOVE POETRY
    Joan Bennett · The Love Poetry of John Donne
    Cleanth Brooks · The Language of Paradox
    Clay Hunt · Elegy 19: "To His Mistress Going to Bed"
    Theodore Redpath · [The Songs and Sonnets]
    R.A. Durr · Donne's "The Primrose"
    Arthur L. Clements · [Eros in the Songs and Sonnets]
  SATIRES, VERSE LETTERS, AND THE ANNIVERSARIES
    John R. Lauritsen · Donne's Satyres: The Drama of
      Self-Discovery
    David Aers and Gunther Kress · 'Darke Texts Needs Notes': Versions
      of Self in Donne's Verse Epistles
    Frank Manley · John Donne: The Anniversaries
  DONNE'S DIVINE POEMS
    Helen Gardner · The Religious Poetry of John Donne
    Louis L. Martz · [Donne's "Holy Sonnets" and "Good
      Friday, 1613"]
    Stanley Archer · Meditation and the Structure of Donne's
      "Holy Sonnets"
    R.V. Young · Donne's Holy Sonnets and the Theology of Grace
    Readings of Holy Sonnet 10 (XIV): A Critical Discussion
      J.C. Levenson: [The First Quatrain]
      George Herman: [The Extended Metaphor]
      J.C. Levenson: [ Three Conceits]
      George Knox: [Contemplation of the Trinity]
      John E. Parish: [The Sonnet's Unity]
      R.D. Bedford: [The Potter-Clay Image]
      Raymond-Jean Frontain: [Redemption Typology]
  A CRITICAL OVERVIEW
    John R. Roberts · John Donne's Poetry: An Assessment of
      Modern Criticism

Selected Bibliography
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines
    

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