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Introduction by C. A. Patrides

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #474796 in Books
• Published on: 1991-10-15
• Released on: 1991-10-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 576 pages

Review
Air [aire] And Angels
An Anatomy Of The World: The First Anniversary
The Anniversary [anniversarie]
The Apparition
The Bait
The Canonization
The Dissolution
The Dream
The Ecstasy [extasie]
Elegy: 16. On His Mistress
Elegy: 17. Variety
Elegy: 19. To His Mistress Going To Bed
The Expiration
The Flea
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
The Good-morrow
Holy Sonnet: 1
Holy Sonnet: 10
Holy Sonnet: 12
Holy Sonnet: 13
Holy Sonnet: 14
Holy Sonnet: 17
Holy Sonnet: 18
Holy Sonnet: 3
Holy Sonnet: 5
Holy Sonnet: 6
Holy Sonnet: 7
Holy Sonnet: Annunciation
Holy Sonnet: Nativitie
Holy Sonnet: Satire 1
Holy Sonnet: Satire 2
Holy Sonnet: Satire 3. On Religion
Holy Sonnet: Satire 4
Holy Sonnet: Satire 5
A Hymn To Christ, At The Author's Last Going Into Germany
Hymn To God My God, In My Sickness
The Indifferent
A Lecture Upon The Shadow
The Legacy
The Litany: 1. The Father
The Litany: 10. The Martyrs
The Litany: 11. The Confessors
The Litany: 12. The Virgins
The Litany: 13. The Doctors
The Litany: 2. The Son
The Litany: 3. The Holy Ghost
The Litany: 4. The Trinity
The Litany: 5. The Virgin Mary
The Litany: 6. The Angels
The Litany: 7. The Patriarchs
The Litany: 8. The Prophets
The Litany: 9. The Apostles
Love's Alchemy
Love's Deity
Love's Growth
Love's Usury
The Message
A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy's Day, Being The Shortest Day
The Paradox
The Relic
Resurrection, Imperfect
Song
Song
The Sun Rising
To The Countess Of Bedford (2)
To The Countess Of Bedford (3)
To The Countess Of Bedford (4)
To The Countess Of Bedford (poems About Deaths)
To The Countess Of Bedford; Begun In France But Never Perfected
The Triple Fool
Twicknam Garden
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
A Valediction: Of Weeping
The Will
Witchcraft By A Picture
Woman's Constancy
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

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Customer Reviews

A great book
I am greatly enjoying this book. The notes at the end explain some of Donne's more obscure imagery. A potentially controversial choice by the editor was to change the spelling of many words to more modern forms, which makes the poems easier to read at the expense of authenticity. Some people will like that and some people won't. Another odd choice was to list the poems in alphabetical order, instead of grouping them by subject matter or attemp to list them in approxiamte chronolgical order.
Buy this book and enjoy the breathtaking poems. You could do a lot worse with your time.

For Devotees...
As you would expect, the Complete Works contains all of Donne's well-known poems. Many of these and several of his lesser known pieces are absolutely brilliant works. But there are reasons why all of Donne's habeas corpus isn't wildly popular, and the Complete Works allows you to find those reasons for yourself. If you really want to study Donne, by all means buy this. If you're looking for old favorites, a book of selections will spare your wallet, shelf, and time.

To yoke unlike things together for most passionate poetry
Songs and Sonnets, Epigrams, Elegies, Satyres, Letters, The Anniversaries, Divine Poems. These are some of the categories of this collection of Donne's complete works. The volume also has a short life of Donne, and an overall introduction to his poetry.
Donne, is generally considered the greatest of the Metaphysical poets. His two great subjects are Love and Death, and his passionate intellect dares to connect elements of diverse worlds into a rich metaphorical texture of poetic conceits. The bold comparisons , the bringing of all modes of experience into relation with the Divine mark out his truly great work.