John Donne: Poems
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Excellent
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Few voices in the English literary canon burn with as much intellectual fervor and passionate intensity as that of John Donne, and John Donne: Poems — edited by the distinguished scholar Sir Herbert Grierson — presents the definitive collection of his extraordinary verse. This landmark edition gathers Donne's celebrated canon, from the audacious wit of his early secular love lyrics to the searing devotional power of his Holy Sonnets, illustrating the full spectrum of a mind that refused to separate the physical from the metaphysical, the erotic from the divine. Grierson's scholarly editorship is itself a piece of literary history; his work in establishing a authoritative text of Donne's poetry is widely credited with igniting the great 20th-century revival of Donne's reputation, drawing the admiration of T.S. Eliot and cementing Donne's place as the supreme master of the metaphysical tradition. Enriched with footnotes and stunning Renaissance-era engravings, this beautifully produced Franklin Library edition is both a rigorous scholarly text and an object of elegance — a fitting vessel for a poet who argued, centuries before modern science confirmed it, that no man is an island, and that love and death are but two faces of the same eternal mystery.
Author: John Donne
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Excellent
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Few voices in the English literary canon burn with as much intellectual fervor and passionate intensity as that of John Donne, and John Donne: Poems — edited by the distinguished scholar Sir Herbert Grierson — presents the definitive collection of his extraordinary verse. This landmark edition gathers Donne's celebrated canon, from the audacious wit of his early secular love lyrics to the searing devotional power of his Holy Sonnets, illustrating the full spectrum of a mind that refused to separate the physical from the metaphysical, the erotic from the divine. Grierson's scholarly editorship is itself a piece of literary history; his work in establishing a authoritative text of Donne's poetry is widely credited with igniting the great 20th-century revival of Donne's reputation, drawing the admiration of T.S. Eliot and cementing Donne's place as the supreme master of the metaphysical tradition. Enriched with footnotes and stunning Renaissance-era engravings, this beautifully produced Franklin Library edition is both a rigorous scholarly text and an object of elegance — a fitting vessel for a poet who argued, centuries before modern science confirmed it, that no man is an island, and that love and death are but two faces of the same eternal mystery.