The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 7.1 - (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>From reviews of previous volumes: </p><p>This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship. --<i>Chronique</p><p></i>Academic libraries and specialists in Renaissance and 17th-century studies should feel compelled to own each and every volume of this series. --<i>Seventeenth Century News</p><p></i>An occasion for celebration. Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the end of the twentieth century. Superb. --<i>Early Modern Literary</i><br/>Studies</p><p>This 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>. . . This edition immediately displaces all its predecessors, and will be indispensable for scholars and libraries.</p>-- "TLS"<br><br><p>Academic libraries and specialists in Renaissance and 17th-century studies should feel compelled to own each and every volume of this series.</p>-- "Seventeeth Century News"<br><br><p>An occasion for celebration. Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the end of the twentieth century. Superb.</p>-- "Early Modern Literary Studies"<br><br><p>In the end, the Elegies are experiments in rhetoric, and whilst, for Donne as for Shakespeare, that does not automatically entail insincerity, it refuses to make sincerity the touchstone of excellence. We are seldom reminded as forcefully as by these poems that in the Latin poetry which underlies them the idea of rhetorical figuration is itself imaged as the application of cosmetics. March 2001</p>-- "New Criterion"<br><br><p>In this third volume in a projected eight-volume series, Stringer presents the most authoritative texts and fullest editorial history of the elegies, including textual apparatus from all known manuscripts and editions from the 17th century onward, and also a comprehensive summary of scholarly and critical commentary on the elegies (also from Donne's era onward). The remarkable insights in the textual/editorial component include identification of the most authoritative manuscript for the elegies (housed in the New York Public Library) and a persuasive speculation that the first 12 elegies in this manuscript reflect Donne's intended sequence. Critical insights reveal the early trend not to treat the elegies as a separate group but to integrate them into a discussion of Donne's amatory verse; the value of using the elegies as context for Donne's later amatory verse, notably Songs and Sonnets; moralistic and biographical readings, which sometimes characterize Donne as a libertine and denounce him for licentiousness; Donne as the first poet to write love elegies in English; the coteries for which the elegies were written and the scribal culture that copied and recopied them for presentation to such audiences of intellectuals. The volume contains five indexes and the most comprehensive bibliography on the elegies now available. Indispensable for large collections supporting 17th-century literature.February 2001</p>--A. C. Labriola "Duquesne University"<br><br><p>Like its predecessors, . . . [this] volume of the Donne Variorum enterprise to appear is a triumph in every way.</p>-- "John Donne Journal"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Gary A. Stringer is Professor of English at Texas A&M University.</p><p>Ted-Larry Pebworth is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. </p><p>Ernest W. Sullivan, II, is Edward S. Diggs Professor of English at Virginia Tech University. </p><p>John R. Roberts is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. </p><p>Diana Trevino Benet is Professor of English at the University of North Texas. </p><p>Theodore J. Sherman is Assistant Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University.</p><p>Dennis Flynn is Professor of English at Bentley College.</p><p>Paul A Parrish is Professor of English at Texas A&M University.</p>
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