The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 4.1

Gary A. Stringer is Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of Southern Mississippi. Meg Lota Brown is Professor of English, Faculty Fellow, and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Arizona. Eugene Cunnar is Professor Emeritus of English at New Mexico State University. Robert C. Evans is I. B. Young Professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery. Robert T. Fallon is an emeritus professor of English at La Salle University. Kate Gartner Frost was Professor Emerita of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Corinee Guy is a Teaching Assistant at East Carolina University. Mitchell M. Harris is Associate Professor of English at Augustana College. Dayton Haskin is Professor of English at Boston College. Jeffrey Johnson is Professor of English at East Carolina University. George Klawitter is Professor of English (retired) at St. Edward's University and an adjunct professor at Holy Cross College at Notre Dame, Indiana. Gregory Kneidel is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Tracy E. McLawhorn is Technology Editor and Assistant Textual Editor of the Donne Variorum. Sean Michael Morris is a Teaching Assistant Professor at East Carolina University. Mary A. Papazian serves as President of Southern Connecticut State University. Paul A. Parrish is Regents Professor of English Emeritus at Texas A&M University. Amy Criniti Phillips is an Assistant Professor of English at Wheeling Jesuit University. John R. Roberts is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Missouri. William Shaw is a lecturer in North Carolina State's English department and a member of the graduate faculty. Gary A. Stringer is Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of Southern Mississippi. Scott Vanderploeg is Professor of Humanities at Madisonville Community College, Kentucky. Matthew Vickless is Assistant Professor of English and Communication and Dean of the School of Professional Studies at Central Penn College. Julia M. Walker is Professor of English at the State University of New York, College at Geneseo. Richard Wollman is Professor of English at Simmons College.

Acknowledgments


Short Forms of Reference for Donne's Works


Abbreviations Used in the Commentary


Sigla for Textural Sources


Manuscripts Listed by Traditional Classification


Symbols and Abbreviations Used in Textural Apparatus


General Introduction


Introduction to Volume 4.1: The Critical Tradition





Commentary


The Songs and Sonets


General Commentary


Autobiography and Persona


Critical Reception


Dating, Publication History, and Manuscript Tradition


Donne's Originality: Praise and Blame


Dramatic Elements


T. S. Eliot


Imagery


Language and Rhetoric


Love and Sexual Imagery


Mannerism and the Baroque


Medievalism


Paradox


Petrarchism


Platonism


Psychological Analysis


Realism


Science and the New Learning


Versification


Wit and Metaphysical Conceit


Women





Works Cited


Index of Authors Cited in the Commentary


Index of Writers and Historical Figures Cited in the Commentary


Index of Other Poems and Works of Donne Cited in the Commentary


About the Editors