Best Selling Books by John Donne

The glory of John Donne''s prose at its best is very different from that of his verse, but is equal to it; and there can be no question that his best prose is in his sermons. His sense of form and arrangement, his psychological insight, his differences of mood and emphasis, and his religious fervor will make this selection of ten sermons particularly interesting to the attentive reader familiar with Donne''s poetry.

A selection of John Donne''s poems suitable for study at A level. This OCR-endorsed edition also contains textual notes and an OCR GCE-specific introduction.

A scholarly edition of prose by John Donne. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.

Reproduction of the original: Devotions by John Donne

This meditative prose conveys the essence of the human place in the world -- past and present.

"Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together with Death''s Duel" is a 1624 prose wo rk by the English writer John Donne, who dedicated it to the future King Charles I. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness, believed to be either typhus or relapsing fever. (Donne does not clearly identify the disease in his text.) He describes this as a "preternatural birth, in returning to life, from this sickness". The work consists of twenty-three parts (''devotions'') describing each stage of the sickness. Each part is further divided into a Meditation, an Expostulation, and a Prayer. This series of meditations on illness were published following John Donne''s sickness during late November and early December of 1623 (when he either had typhus or relapsing fever). Each of his ruminations are recorded in groups of three: meditation, expostulation, and prayer. Donne''s insights about the "variable, therefore miserable condition of man" will always be pertinent as long as humans continue to fall prey to disease. The reading is a little slow at times, but there are some fine pieces in this book, including his famous meditation XVII, "No man is an island", that Hemingway quoted when he wrote FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS. Even if you don''t read all of the essays, this book is worth obtaining just to pore over meditation XVII.

The implications of Shami''s discovery are profound. Transcribed immediately after Donne delivered the sermon on November 5, 1622, this manuscript version and its corrections give us important new information about Donne''s habits of composition and revision. In addition, the existence of an authorial manuscript version requires us to reconsider the textual status of George Potter and Evelyn Simpson''s ten-volume California edition of Donne''s sermons published in 1962. Their edition has, to date, been relied upon as "definitive." Potter and Simpson''s version was based on the only printed version of this sermon in Fifty Sermons, printed in 1649.

Contains 128 letters written by Donne between 1600 & 1631, collected & published by his son in 1651, illustrating Donne''s character, his relationships with his family, his flattery of his patrons, his religious attitudes, his views of current happenings, & his increasing involvement in public affairs.

A scholarly edition of essays by John Donne. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

This title is part of UC Press''s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.

Presenting a collection of poems, this edition contains notes on the poems and an Approaches section offering commentary and activities on key themes and techniques, such as political beliefs and the role of imagery.