Most Popular Books by John Donne

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 1957.

In this new edition of Donne''s Essayes in Divinity Anthony Raspa demonstrates how Donne reconciles the destiny of Christians, who arose out of divine creation, with the turbulent state of the Renaissance world. Raspa argues that the purpose of Donne''s work is to explain how Genesis and Exodus capture the essence of existence for a person who must deal with life as both an individual and a member of a community. Completed late in 1614, Essayes, Donne''s only theological and philosophical treatise, casts considerable light on his ideas about his own future. Donne entered the Anglican priesthood soon after completing it and Raspa reveals that, particularly because of its treatment of time and destiny, Essayes is crucial to our understanding of the development of Donne''s ideas about the turbulent religio-political state of the Renaissance world and how he came to see his own life within it. Raspa contends that Essayes is a peculiarly modern work and that Donne, as a Renaissance humanist, was profoundly shaken by the development of empirical thinking and the seemingly endless political conflicts among Christian denominations. He shows that Donne drew on the entirety of Renaissance humanist learning in an attempt to reconcile the state of contemporary knowledge with the destiny of humanity prophesied in the bible.

"Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscript and print history of Donne''s poetry, this edition presents newly edited critical texts of the poems and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne''s time forward. Textual introductions briefly locate the poems in the context of Donne''s life or poetic development, outline the 17th-century textual history of the poems, and sketch the treatment of the text by modern editors. A detailed textual apparatus presents variants collated from many sources and traces the lines of textual transmission"--Provided by publisher.

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature''s finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete poetical works of John Donne, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. Donne''s sparkling wit and imaginative conceits have delighted readers over the centuries; now you can own his entire poetical genius on your eReader! (3MB Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Donne''s life and works * Concise introductions to the poetry and other works * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Almost the complete prose, with rare texts like Donnes study of suicide BIATHANATOS, appearing for the first time in digital print * Includes Donne''s letters - spend hours exploring the poet''s personal correspondence * Features three biographies, including Izaak Waltons famous contemporary memoir - discover Donne''s literary life in detail! * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Poetry Collections SONGS AND SONNETS ELEGIES DIVINE POEMS HOLY SONNETS OTHER DIVINE POEMS SATIRES MARRIAGE SONGS VERSE LETTERS EPICEDES AND OBSEQUIES EPIGRAMS INFINITATI SACRUM THE ANNIVERSARIES LATIN POEMS DOUBTFUL VERSES The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Prose BIATHANATOS PSEUDO-MARTYR IGNATIUS HIS CONCLAVE DEVOTIONS UPON EMERGENT OCCASIONS PARADOXES PROBLEMS The Letters LIST OF LETTERS The Biographies THE LIFE OF DR. JOHN DONNE by Izaak Walton JOHN DONNE by Arthur Symons JOHN DONNE by Robert Lynd Please click here to browse our other titles

WHAT will not kill a man if a vapour will? How great an elephant, how small a mouse destroys! To die by a bullet is the soldier''s daily bread; but few men die by hail-shot. A man is more worth than to be sold for single money; a life to be valued above a trifle. If this were a violent shaking of the air by thunder or by cannon, in that case the air is condensed above the thickness of water, of water baked into ice, almost petrified, almost made stone, and no wonder that kills; but that which is but a vapour, and a vapour not forced but breathed, should kill, that our nurse should overlay us, and air that nourishes us should destroy us, but that it is a half atheism to murmur against Nature, who is God''s immediate commissioner, who would not think himself miserable to be put into the hands of Nature.

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.

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

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 works by John Donne. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus. -- Publisher''s description.

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare''s finesse to Oscar Wilde''s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim''s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library.

"Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which these poems have appeared, the fifth volume in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne presents newly edited critical texts of the five canonical satires and "Metempsychosis" and details the genealogical history of each accompanied by a thorough prose discussion. The analysis contained in the volume shows that Donne revised each of the poems and explains how readings from the competing versions were intermingled in the early editions and transmitted to subsequent generations. The volume also presents a comprehensive organized digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on these poems from Donne''s time through 2001"--The publisher.