The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 2: The Elegies

ISBN: 0253333768

Author: Donne, John

Condition: New

From reviews of previous volumes:"This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship." -Chronique"Academic libraries and specialists in Renaissance and 17th-century studies should feel compelled to own each and every volume of this series." -Seventeenth Century News"An occasion for celebration. Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the end of the twentieth century. Superb." -Early Modern LiteraryStudiesThis latest addition to the Donne variorum, the third to appear in a projected eight-volume series, presents a newly edited critical text of Donne's elegies and a comprehensive variorum commentary. As with previous volumes, Volume 2 is based on a study of all known manuscript sources and significant printed editions of Donne's poetry and on an examination of the criticism and scholarship of the past four centuries.