The Complete Poetry And Selected Prose Of John Donne
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Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few voices in the English literary canon resonate with the same breathtaking intensity as John Donne's — a poet who transformed personal anguish, divine devotion, and erotic longing into some of the most intellectually dazzling verse ever written. The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne presents the full breadth of his genius, from the audacious wit of the early Songs and Sonnets and the intricate argument of the Elegies, to the soaring spiritual gravitas of the Holy Sonnets and the magnificent prose of his Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions. Edited with a scholarly introduction by Charles M. Coffin, James H. Dempsey Professor of English at Kenyon College, this Modern Library edition brings authoritative critical context to bear on one of literature's most multifaceted figures. Donne stands at the threshold of the metaphysical tradition, a movement characterised by its bold use of the conceit — an extended, often startling metaphor that binds the cosmic to the intimate, the sacred to the sensual. Coffin's editorial hand guides the reader through Donne's turbulent biography and the rich theological and Renaissance intellectual currents that shaped his work, illuminating why poets from Ben Jonson to T.S. Eliot counted him among the most formidable of influences. Whether encountering Donne for the first time or returning to a lifetime's companion, the reader will find that his words, once absorbed, are impossible to forget — for no one has ever argued so passionately that love and death are, in the end, the very same conversation.
Author: John Donne
Format: Hardback
Published: 1952, The Modern Library
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few voices in the English literary canon resonate with the same breathtaking intensity as John Donne's — a poet who transformed personal anguish, divine devotion, and erotic longing into some of the most intellectually dazzling verse ever written. The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne presents the full breadth of his genius, from the audacious wit of the early Songs and Sonnets and the intricate argument of the Elegies, to the soaring spiritual gravitas of the Holy Sonnets and the magnificent prose of his Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions. Edited with a scholarly introduction by Charles M. Coffin, James H. Dempsey Professor of English at Kenyon College, this Modern Library edition brings authoritative critical context to bear on one of literature's most multifaceted figures. Donne stands at the threshold of the metaphysical tradition, a movement characterised by its bold use of the conceit — an extended, often startling metaphor that binds the cosmic to the intimate, the sacred to the sensual. Coffin's editorial hand guides the reader through Donne's turbulent biography and the rich theological and Renaissance intellectual currents that shaped his work, illuminating why poets from Ben Jonson to T.S. Eliot counted him among the most formidable of influences. Whether encountering Donne for the first time or returning to a lifetime's companion, the reader will find that his words, once absorbed, are impossible to forget — for no one has ever argued so passionately that love and death are, in the end, the very same conversation.