The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 6: The Anniversaries and the Epicedes and Obsequies

By John Donne

Book Overview

"The appearance of the first volume . . . is an occasion for celebration. Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the end of the twentieth century . . . " --Claude J. Summers, Early Modern Literary Studies

" . . . especially valuable for its wide-ranging and reliable summaries of textual and critical commentary on these works . . . This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship." --Bibliot que d'Humanisme et Renaissance

" . . . the most important collaborative project in 17th-century studies in recent history . . . " --Seventeenth-Century News

A major editorial and interpretive undertaking, this edition includes a newly edited critical text based on exhaustive study of all known manuscripts and significant printed editions of Donne's poetry and a complete digest of critical and scholarly commentary on the poetry from Donne's time to the present.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253318114
• ISBN13: 9780253318114
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher