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John Donne’s Poetry

Contents

  • Preface
  • Textual Introduction
  • Textual Notes
  • The texts of John Donne’s Poetry
  • Satires
  • Satire 1.
  • Satire 2.
  • Satire 3.
  • Satire 4.
  • Satire 5.
  • Elegies
  • Elegy 1. The Bracelet.
  • Elegy 2. The Comparison.
  • Elegy 3. The Perfume.
  • Elegy 4. Jealousy.
  • Elegy 5.
  • Elegy 6.
  • Elegy 7. Love’s War.
  • Elegy 8. To His Mistress Going to Bed.
  • Elegy 9.
  • Elegy 10. The Anagram.
  • Elegy 11. On His Mistress.
  • Elegy 12. On His Picture.
  • Elegy 14. Love’s Progress.
  • Elegy. Sappho to Philenis
  • Epithalamion Made at Lincoln’s Inn.
  • Verse Letters To Several Personages
  • The Storm. To Mr. Christopher Brooke.
  • The Calm.
  • To Sir Henry Wotton. [“Here’s no more news”]
  • To Sir Henry Wotton. [“Sir, more than kisses”]
  • To Mr. R[owland]. W[oodward]. [“Like one who’ in her third widowhood”]
  • To Mr. T[homas]. W[oodward]. [“Haste thee harsh verse”]
  • To Mr. T[homas]. W[oodward]. [“Pregnant again”]
  • To Mr. E[verard]. G[uilpin]. [“Even as lame things”]
  • To Mr. S. B. [“O thou which to search”]
  • To Mr. B. B. [“Is not thy sacred hunger of science”]
  • To Sir Henry Wotton at His Going Ambassador to Venice.
  • To the Countess of Bedford. [“Madam, Reason is our soul’s left hand”]
  • To the Countess of Bedford. [“Madam, You have refin’d me”]
  • Songs And Sonnets
  • The Message.
  • The Bait.
  • The Apparition.
  • The Broken Heart.
  • A Lecture upon the Shadow.
  • A Valediction Forbidding Mourning.
  • The Good Morrow.
  • Song: [Go and catch a falling star.]
  • Woman’s Constancy.
  • 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 Prohibition.
  • The Anniversary.
  • A Valediction of My Name in the Window.
  • Twicknam 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 Ecstasy.
  • The Undertaking.
  • 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 Computation.
  • The Expiration.
  • The Paradox.
  • A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy’s Day; Being the Shortest Day.
  • Witchcraft by a Picture.
  • Farewell to Love.
  • Self-Love.
  • Image of Her Whom I Love.
  • The First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World
  • Divine Poems
  • La Corona Sonnets
  • Holy Sonnet 1. “As due by many titles”
  • Holy Sonnet 2. “O my black soul”
  • Holy Sonnet 3. “This is my play’s last scene”
  • Holy Sonnet 4. “At the round earth’s imagin’d corners”
  • Holy Sonnet 5. “If poisonous minerals”
  • Holy Sonnet 6. “Death, be not proud”
  • Holy Sonnet 7. “Spit in my face”
  • Holy Sonnet 8. “Why are we by all creatures”
  • Holy Sonnet 9. “What if this present”
  • Holy Sonnet 10. “Batter my heart”
  • Holy Sonnet 11. “Wilt thou love God”
  • Holy Sonnet 12. “Father, part of his double interest”
  • Holy Sonnet 13. “Thou hast made me”
  • Holy Sonnet 14. “Oh might those sighs”
  • Holy Sonnet 15. “I am a little world”
  • Holy Sonnet 16. “If faithful souls”
  • Holy Sonnet 17. “Since she whom I loved”
  • Holy Sonnet 18. “Show me, dear Christ”
  • Holy Sonnet 19. “Oh, to vex me”
  • The Cross.
  • Resurrection, imperfect.
  • Upon the Annunciation and Passion Falling Upon One Day.
  • Good-Friday, 1613. Riding Westward.
  • Upon The Translation of the Psalms by Sir Philip Sidney, and the Countess of Pembroke; His Sister.
  • 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.
  • To Christ.
  • A Hymn to God the Father.
  • Criticism
  • Donne and Metaphysical Poetry
  • Ben Jonson [Conversations about Donne]
  • Thomas Carew, An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul’s, Dr. John Donne
  • Izaak Walton, From The Life of Dr. John Donne
  • John Dryden [Donne Affects the Metaphysics]
  • Samuel Johnson [The Metaphysical Poets]
  • Dennis Flynn, Portrait of a Swordsman
  • John Carey, Donne’s Apostasy
  • Satires, Elegies, and Verse Letters
  • Arthur F. Marotti, “Donne as an Inns-of-Court Author”
  • M. Thomas Hester, “Ask thy father”: ReReading Donne’s Satyre III
  • Alan Armstrong, The Apprenticeship of John Donne: Ovid and the Elegies.
  • Achsah Guibbory, “Oh, Let Mee Not Serve So”: The Politics of Love in Donne’s Elegies
  • Margaret Maurer, John Donne’s Verse Letters
  • Heather Dubrow, Resident Alien: John Donne
  • Gary A. Stringer, Some of Donne’s Revisions (And How to Recognize Them)
  • Songs and Sonnets
  • Donald L. Guss, Donne’s Petrarchism
  • Patrick Cruttwell, The Love Poetry of John Donne: Pedantique Weedes or Fresh Invention?
  • John A. Clair, John Donne’s “The Canonization”
  • M. Thomas Hester, “this cannot be said”: A Preface to the Reader of Donne’s Lyrics
  • Theresa M. DiPasquale, Receiving a Sexual Sacrament: ’The Flea” as Profane Eucharist
  • Camille Wells Slights, A Pattern of Love: Representations of Anne Donne
  • Holy Sonnets/Divine Poems
  • R. V. Young, Donne’s Holy Sonnets and the Theology of Grace
  • Louis L. Martz, [Donne’s Holy Sonnets and “Good Friday, 1613”]
  • David M. Sullivan, Riders to the West: “Goodfriday, 1613”
  • Donald R. Dickson, The Complexities of Biblical Typology in the Seventeenth Century
  • John Donne: A Chronology
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index of Titles
  • Index of First Lines

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