The Variorum Edition Of The Poetry Of John Donne, Volume 2: The Elegies

The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 2: The Elegies

From reviews of previous volumes:This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship. -ChroniqueAcademic libraries and specialists in Renaissance and 17th-century studies should feel compelled to own each and every volume of this series. -Seventeenth Century NewsAn occasion for celebration. Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the end of the twentieth century. Superb. -Early Modern LiteraryStudiesThis latest addition to the Donne variorum, the third to appear in a projected eight-volume series, presents a newly edited critical text of Donne's elegies and a comprehensive variorum commentary. As with previous volumes, Volume 2 is based on a study of all known manuscript sources and significant printed editions of Donne's poetry and on an examination of the criticism and scholarship of the past four centuries.