The complete poetry and selected prose of John Donne

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This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Extasie," and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie," "His Parting From Her," and "To His Mistris Going to Bed." Presented as well are Donne's satires, epigrams, verse letters, and holy sonnets, along with his most ambitious and important poems, the Anniversaries. In addition, there is a generous sampling of Donne's prose, including many of his private letters; Ignatius His Conclave, a satiric onslaught on the Jesuits; excerpts from Biathanatos, his celebrated defense of suicide; and his most famous sermons, concluding with the final "Death's Duell." "We have only to read [Donne]," wrote Virginia Woolf, "to submit to the sound of that passionate and penetrating voice, and his figure rises again across the waste of the years more erect, more imperious, more inscrutable than any of his time."

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"Edited and compiled by the renowned Donne scholar Charles M. Coffin, this Modern Library Paperback Classics edition, containing all of Donne's poetry and the best of his prose, provides a comprehensive and accessible foray into a body of work that is as original today as it was nearly four hundred years ago."--BOOK JACKET.

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Other Editions

• The complete poetry and selected prose of John DonneModern Library2001-01-01
• The complete poetry and selected prose of John DonneModern Library1941-01-01
• The complete poetry and selected prose of John DonneRandom house1941-01-01
• The complete poetry and selected prose of John DonneModern Library1946-01-01
• The complete poetry and selected prose of John Donne.Modern Library1952-01-01
• The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John DonneModern Library1978-01-12